Graphs: The amount of voat content before and after the "blackout". The decline is happening.

This is true. I actually started drifting towards Phuks earlier, mostly because it was getting progressively more toxic there. It was the Voat 'days of darkness' that was the final straw for me, followed by zero explanation. I still have my account and swoop by on occasion to see how that whole thing is shaking out ... but this goat is now a fox - LOL

That decline is most substantial than I expected. Some of that might have to do with this being the weekend before finals in some of the US, but that's obviously only a small factor.

Even though its become clear that my time on voat is over, I can't help but feel like abandoning ship is somehow playing into the hands of whoever is behind all this shit. Its just too weird that the shills and admins are both apparently in favor of displacing the userbase.

Interesting research. Thanks for posting.

Pretty sure empress isn't going back as numerous messages she got wished her a still born or disfigured children and that she dies during labor or calling her a tranny over and over.

There is a line you don't cross with shit, and they did with no one to really stop it so......she is likely never going back. Can't say I blame her because she poured her all into that sub and it showed.

Good thing is she started something good and it can be done again.

I won't go back to do more than look at the dumpster fire. No point really I feel. Then chmod, and many others saying to hell with it.

All they have left is dietcokehead and maybe some 4chan esk posters so nothing of actual content and over time people (real people) will leave and leave them to their own devices.

Voat did what it was supposed to I assume. Kept the undesirable away from Reddit and made them some money. Make no mistake if they won't tell the actual amount of donation they made a profit. Plus one guy did most the work he says.

I think it's too soon to draw any conclusions. A 6 month average may be a better way of looking at it.

I'm still trying to figure it out. Is it nefarious, dark forces behind it, is Putt the only one trying some (to his thinking) strange plan to accomplish ???, or is he suffering from a narcissistic "Nobody can do this but me" grandiose? I applaud what he and Atko started and accomplished, truly a beacon in the ugly, censored, liberal cesspool of a good portion of the internet and society. But it obviously has gotten out of hand and more than just one person can maintain. Now I feel like he's showing disdain and contempt not just to the corrosive users, but to the very users who freely give content, which is the crux and livelihood of the site. It's true that while you have place where you can say it, do you need to say it? I don't mean conflicting views on politics and society, I'm thinking more about the juvenilistic, sophomoric posts of some users who just post garbage to feel edgy and the schoolyard antics of groups throwing crap at each other to assert their alphaness. I would miss the good parts of actual discussion and views on current events but the pendulum has started to swing too far.

I'm still confused and decidedly have no answers. It will all work out one way or another. For now, I'll just watch.

Meh. I support Putts comment to chmod, though I like chmod in general.

Putt is doing this project for fun. He doesn't have to be everyone's bitch. Through he also isn't doing a good job, but that's independent of becoming everyone's bitch for trying to do a nice thing.

So he's doing a bad job. Move with your feet. Don't become a dick.

I don't really see anything anomalous there. It's all within a reasonable margin of error. It's too soon and not enough data, anyway.

I was a regular Voat user for just about two years and really enjoy the site. the fact the canary died (that bugs me) and Putt posted he would "get around to addressing the site" (paraphrased by me) when he had time from his busy life, well, I think in that amount of time he could have told Voat members what has/is going on. Still no word from Putt or Atko as of today, that I've seen. I noticed lots of very childish and clickbait posts; lots of new names with scads of ccp and scp (or wtf it is); brigading like feckin' crazy. I've lost faith in the site as of now, yet I hope to be able to return to it when it gets sorted out.