I have been thinking about community growth and how the voat fracture has split several communities apart.
Compared to Reddit the userbase at voat was small. To grow a non political sub on voat took work and dedication. It really takes one to two very active and motivated mods to get a sub going and stay going. It’s extremely easy to get burnt out. Over the years the majority of communities on voat have disbanded and have tried to replicate their subs on several platforms. Non have really matched the spark that was voat in its prime (IMO).
I’m curious about how the future of poal and phuks relationship will work and how that relationship will effect community growth.
Phuks seems content on small growth with little to no advertising on other sites were Poal seems the opposite, very eager to gain users and growth. Voat got its growth from Reddit fucking up and Poal was created because Voat is fucking up. Seems fucking up is the growth strategy here.
There’s a lot of cross posts on all three sites. Does this hinder community growth?
Just running “whatever” thoughts I had this morning.
Happy Friday Phukers.
Puttitout couldn't be more wrong when he stated that what makes the site is the infrastructure and the community is irrelevant.
Voat changed as the old community left, and a new radicalized community moved in.
That's why Voat will always be a failure. The admins never understood that the community was the only value the site had. The actual code is really bad.
Phuks and Poal both understand this. But they have slightly differing goals.
Poal wants an "anything goes, no limits of speech" area, Phuks is trying for a mixed, non-partisan community. I am not sure of this, but I think Poal would be happy to become a new and better Voat. Phuks has a less mapped out future, and less desire to grow. Slow organic growth is generally preferred, since it rocks the community less. A large exodus can displace existing communities.
There is certainly some overlap, and I don't see that being a problem for anything.