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I have mixed feelings on it. It's great that somehow Voat will continue to be out there. And seems they will hire Justin full time along with other staff. That's all great stuff.

What concerns me is it seems every time something gets bought, then it needs to generate a profit. Merch and all that is great, but we all know that with sites like voat, reddit or whatever, the "product" is the users.

In my opinion they would not knowingly or willingly just sell voat down the river, but I imagine things will change in the very near future after the honeymoon ends, when the bean counters see they are bleeding cash to server costs and staff with merch not covering it.

Glad set this up when he did. I wonder if only smaller sites like this can truly be free, born out of love with no real driving push for ROI or profit?

I have mixed feelings on it. It's great that somehow Voat will continue to be out there. And seems they will hire Justin full time along with other staff. That's all great stuff. What concerns me is it seems every time something gets bought, then it needs to generate a profit. Merch and all that is great, but we all know that with sites like voat, reddit or whatever, the "product" is the users. In my opinion they would not knowingly or willingly just sell voat down the river, but I imagine things will change in the very near future after the honeymoon ends, when the bean counters see they are bleeding cash to server costs and staff with merch not covering it. Glad @PMYB2 set this up when he did. I wonder if only smaller sites like this can truly be free, born out of love with no real driving push for ROI or profit?

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[–] • 5 pts

The Voat of today is no longer the Voat of even a year or two back, so I'm not sure injecting cash will change it in any way. The post was also very short on details, other than to announce that Putt now has a full time job and a small staff. Only time will tell what that means for Voat's future. But to me, Putt lost control of that place a good spell back and reining it in and making it relevant again for anything beyond the toxic waste dump it's become will be difficult. Maybe it's just me, but seeing how it's devolved gives me no interest in returning.

[–] • 1 pt

The "New" Putt we've had for three years or so has been consistently sparse on any details at all. Voat's transparency is so awful it might as well be a smoke screen.

[–] • 1 pt

Absolutely true. And the way Voat's changed since atko moved on is unmistakable. Putt ran it into the ground.