Goats use Voat for different purposes; some of us use it as a sort of alternative publishing platform for our research (e.g. myself, maybe the HRC guy, some of the Pizzagaters and some of the QRV guys). If this research isn't spiderable, and otherwise isn't easily accessible (e.g. requires login, but new accounts are closed), then many of us research posters have lost a lot of what we used this platform for. Since there is no other platform for us online right now, Voat has truly turned into a containment board.
The concept of a replacement level applies to website userbases as well as populations. Online, you can't make families with other accounts and reproduce new accounts. Unironically (yet still ironically), replacement migration is the only way that a web population can grow.
Thus my argument: Goats leave all of the time and are replaced with new goats. This can't happen now, and, unless it changes, Voat will die.
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WORF_MOTORBOATS_TROI ago
I'm sure it will eventually, but what's the rush?
alele-opathic ago
I can't see anything positive coming out of this for any of the people who use Voat. Most of the zoomers use Voat because they are legitimately trying to 'redpill normies', which involves new people seeing new information. This potential for exposure doesn't exist now, so what of them? Infinichan is still kill, 4chan is pozzed, Reddit is controlled, etc.
So what of the research posters? Their only other option is to create personal blogs to dump their info on, and Google/DDG/Bing/etc shoahs them, and then what?
NOMOCHOMO ago
I've long hypothesized that the goal is ideological ghettos. Each style of platform is replicated and filter bubbled, so competing ideas can't be introduced.
Left: Reddit, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter
Right: Voat, Minds, Bitchute, Gab
The image boards have to be killed for this strategy to be totally effective. They are the last platform with consistent crosspolination.