I still go to Voat and am still a member but, Phuks has really siphoned the cream-of-the-crop from Voat, relative to content posting and maintaining a great board.
I was just on Voat, getting ready to post something about vile property tax laws perpetrated upon the citizens of Cook county, U. S of A and as I looked and read some posts I just said "forget it, I'll try another day."
They drive out contributors and content creators, people who went to Voat from Reddit were looking for a place to start new communities free of the old baggage/"power users"/and overly serious mods/admins who created power structures that subverted the interests of users. Voat on the other hand gave almost no power to mods/community creators and would frequently oust dedicated users if they were accused of being a "shill" or having different politics (Reddit does the same thing but is less public). I basically left after seeing good community builders get constantly harassed for no reason other than banning spammers from subs or crossing SRS A.K.A. "Protect Voat". Most of the time these community builders were the exact people Voat preached about their community supporting, community builders that would simply build new subs if the large ones got too shitty.
I could draw a comparison, Reddit is like a monarchy with fiefdoms, basically the nobles can cut your head off at any time for any reason. Voat is like post revolution communist Russia, anyone who even looks like they're trying to build a fief without consent is getting their head cut off.