This development reinforces my choice to not sign up @beehaw. The risk of mod over-reach is far more serious than my feelings being hurt because someone wrote a mean spirited comment. So long beehaw mods, I hope your impossible goal to keep the internet free from hatred does not drive you totally insane.
I generally agree with your statement. In addition to the generally hateful community, voat was being manipulated (IMO) by external organization(s) to amplify the hate. Possible reasons were that voat was a honeypot for law enforcement and that a free voat was a threat to the already controlled corporate sites like reddit. Perhaps I’m being overly paranoid, but the antisemitism in particular never seemed entirely organic.
In the end, voat still had potential but it died for the same reasons reddit is failing - centralized ownership. The voat owner / host eventually just called it quits and shut it down. Why? Perhaps voat outlived it’s usefulness to the big three (CIA / FBI / NSA).
“clown world” was at least initially a reference to how the CIA meddles in the affairs of the world (Clowns In America).
A great lesson in how the federation works. Thanks for posting.