I think they would be kicked off whatever fund raising platform they use pretty quickly.

At which point wouldn't they switch to BTC? Agree or disagree with who Voat is and what they say, but I can only assume at least one coin exchange would be willing to do business with them.

In the comments (which I don't recommend reading, they're full of extreme racism), an apparently regular user says they tried getting donations before but it's never enough to last more than a few months.

And again we come to the conclusion of the only real use for cryptos- moving money when no one wants to touch you with a 10 foot pole otherwise.

But to the moon, right!

I agree, this doesn't make sense to me unless this person is not good at business. I mean, why not at least try to sell it to parler.

I don't think Parler would want it. Parler's a mix of traditional neoconservatism, and MAGA culture. That represents a sizeable portion of the US population.

Voat's content is by reputation alt-right, and bald-faced fascism. It's the fringe of the fringe, and the type of content that gets you cut out of payment networks.

Anyone who backed them financially would be instantly blacklisted. They'd be better off asking to be sent cash via snail mail.

Definitely want to know more about the monthly cost breakdown, view stats, etc., plus information about the technical details of the software it was running.

I heard a story once about a "1000 year civ2 game save" where the OP thought it was unwinnable but civ2 veterans got a copy of the game save then had no trouble winning. Would love another story like that.

My guess is that that was a phony reason to mask some other one. I run a reddit clone with as much activity as voat gets, and I do it from the smallest server DigitalOcean offers for $5/month. That includes running it, the Postgres server, etc. It has near instant load times.

Either something with their software is really messed up (Lemmy is a great example of a reddit clone that requires an order of magnitude more server power than it should) or there's a more insidious reason and the admin just wants the whole thing to go away without giving a reason that will incite the mob against them. You can see them in there already calling for the doxx of the angel investor who stopped paying.

are you running the literal reddit codebase or a clone codebase, and if so, is it open source?

Lemmy is written in rust, so that is surprising, but it also a react SPA so feels heavy to me when I tried it.