Customer retention is actually more important than unique views.

This assumes we have that. I've watched the smaller subs die over the years, and the larger ones are broken records. We didn't have customer retention before Voat closed, so we surely don't have it now.

I'm one of the few people left trying to submit original content, and, for us, impact/reach/whatever you choose to call it is the most important, as its what makes the process of wasting life to actually dig up, create, compile, write, format, and submit this shit worth it. You want someone to actually meaningfully build on or use the information you provide.

I got a login on another closed community.

(I think I am reading this right): The torrent communities work because people that want to join already know what they will find when they get in / what they want to find once inside, and, given the legal situation, the additional hoops to join are seen as reassuring of security rather than annoying.

Communities like Voat are based around discussion and sharing of human-readable info. Most of the people who join lurked first, until they discovered something interesting that 'captured' them. This process of capturing attention is well documented, it's why the 'youtube rabbit hole' exists, companies like StumbleUpon make money helping websites do this better, etc.

I got a login on another closed community

Why don't you take a seat over there.

My education was complete before voat

I'd love to challenge that. Did you know:

• that the first 'weaponized' use of chatbots was to argue against so-called 'antivaxxers' on Twitter? Turns out it takes only 39 bots to overwhelm thousands of real humans.
• that people have been suicided by runaway vehicles since the 80s? Or that Ford admitted publicly that they were aware their vehicles had defects that allow 'specially formed transmissions' to cause 'runaway acceleration'?
• that protonmail and NordVPN are a Lithuanian honeypot, and not Swiss, as they claim?
• that the Pleistocene Megafaunal extinctions were most likely because CO2 levels were too low?
• that (((echoes))) were originally how jews referred to themselves in classified documents, not a 'right wing invention'?
• that the Amish showed you can actually fight the IRS and win if you band together?

I have assloads more if you like. I'm still polishing what will probably be my best work, surrounding Masons, slavery, women in politics, and the civil war. And this didn't even touch on the tons of tiny things I drop all the time on topics from the War for Linux to basic Physics.

I have no dog in this fight

You do, actually, since you have an account here and (presumably) want Voat to survive for posterity.

but, c'mon, man.

I was chuckling a bit as I wrote that, but it is true. Replacement migration is solely bad because there is a perfect option that already exists, namely reproduction, that you'd have to first ignore or stifle. Reproduction isn't a thing online, hence why onboarding and 'user capture' is a thing.

The rush is that in barely a month, voat went from a decent right-wing- & nationalist-themed content aggregator, discussion & sharing platform to a civnat/qtard/muh-based-negroes shit-tier cesspool for sharing quips, one-liners, and blurry, grainy, resized, cropped, and watermarked trash that people find on faceberg/twitter.

There's no valid reason that these so-called outside attacks are being dealt with by closing account registration or needing to log in to view the site. That's just not how DDOS attacks work.

One thing that I find telling is how the site hangs all the time. Write a post, click submit, and it just sits there forever. Click again, and your post sometimes goes through, sometimes not. Click again and again and it eventually will. But then go look at your own post history and there two or five or six posts that were made. Why did it hang?

8chan started acting the same way 'round the clock (i.e., regardless of actual time-correlated demand on site infrastructure) after their so-called "hack" in April '18, and stayed that way until the day it went down.

but what's the rush?

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?

I have to agree with him on more than a few levels, and the first one is the fact that this is what (((they))) want. We are now isolated.