Voat

Voat is a news aggregator and social networking service where registered community members can submit content such as text posts and direct links. Registered users can then vote for these submissions. Content entries are organized by areas of interest called "subverses."

The website has been described by several legacy media outlets, including Quartz, The New York Times, New York, and the US and UK editions of Wired, as a hub for the alt-right.

Voat is a site which hosts aggregated content and discussion forums. According to Wired, Voat is "aesthetically and functionally similar to Reddit."Like Reddit, Voat is a collection of entries submitted by its registered users to themed categories (called "subverses" on Voat) similar to a bulletin board system. Unlike Reddit, Voat has emphasized looser content restrictions and an ad-revenue sharing program.Voat is written in the C# programming language, while Reddit is written in Python.

In a January 2017 New Yorker article, Voat was described as a descendant of 2chan, 4chan, and 8chan, where users compete for "shock value".The Verge described the site as "Imzy's dark twin", in that both were indirect products of the 'Gamergate culture war'.

The name "Voat" is a play on the words 'goat' and 'vote'. The site's mascot is a goat. The website uses the Colombian top level domain .co which was registered in November 2014.