In 2014 Voat became a destination of migration for groups who found themselves banished from REEddit. It was superior in a number of ways including a point rationing system to reduce vote induced groupthink, being open sourced (at a time when REEddit, which began as OSS, started closing their code up). It had better visibility and engagement with posts by virtue of having a smaller userbase, an open stance against censorship by the administrators (Atko, PuttItOut), and was self/community fina...
