We're all sick and tired of the big California (mostly San Fran) based tech companies exerting their heavy hand of anti-American, radical-leftist facism censorship over social media platforms. Facebook, YouTube/Google, Twitter, Reddit, Apple AppStore/iTunes - it's now completely obvious that any mega corporate entity cannot be trusted.

If We The People want platforms that uphold the American ideals of Liberty then is looking like the platform will need to be democratized in some manner in respect to support, etc. As again, the core of nearly all of the modern tech companies that dominate the Internet have not shown themselves to be evil to their cores.

Facebook and Google specifically were probably originated as "special projects" with nefarious social control as the long term intentions from the get go.

The largest problem for a site like Voat will be handling scale - if it attracts the base of users that were just banned from Reddit.

May I suggest an approach of transparency? Post the monthly operating cost, get setup with donate buttons and show monthly income from donations. That way we the users can be aware of the reality of what is involved in keeping a site as a going concern.

It's one thing to operate a hobbyist site for a small audience, but quite another to be able to scale and operate for the size of user base that Reddit itself is capable of handling.

Another matter worth public discussion would be a forum for architecture discussion of the site itself for us tech heads that want to participate in that side of things. In one thing per architecture, it's clear that it will need to be portable to deploy at any of the commercial hosting sites (and not joined at the hip in using APIs that bind it to one hosting provider). For instance, who in this day and age would trust Amazon? Digital Ocean may be the better (freedom) choice of the top 4 hosting providers right now, but even that could change. So needs to be possible to move a site at the drop of a hat.