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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Le_Squish ago
You dumb.
Voat can stay exclusive forever especially since we're are not ad revenue dependent. We only need the invite system to work.
I got a login on another closed community. They only open registration once a year but otherwise are invite only and they got plenty of people there, more than voat.
What they jews taught you is not the only model for a business. Customer retention is actually more important than unique views.
NOMOCHOMO ago
Why don't you take a seat over there.