The Great Awakening migration could be used as a great example of a migration gone wrong.
Continuing the conversion were had below, maybe this is exactly the problem: migration. Voat had several influxes of users, always in great quantifies, almost always clashing with the anterior userbase. The first migration to whoaverse was caused by the downvote counter being hid in reddit. Despite generalized rejection and the most downvoted announcement ever, admins kept throwing bullshit at our faces and implemented it. We where not jettisoned, we decided to leave, and our integration in whoaverse was just natural. There was nobody there, of course, but the fact is that we were not a circlejerk, the only common ground was the rejection of reddit's admins bullshit. The migrations caused by expulsion are different, a great number of users is playing into their little circlejerk, or safespace, or whatever name, and they just go to a new place. Obviously, they want to stay like they were, they want the fun to continue. Changing sucks, both sides. Now, the old ones are bothered with all the noise and people stepping on their flowers, and the new ones just want to do what they are used to. Solution? I don't see one. In my perfect utopia, growth occurs slowly, with new people integrating to the place.
I agree that organic growth done moderately will be a better userbase than migration growth.
Damn you were on Voat way before me! I hit it around the gamergate /r/conspiracy dramas in March before the yuge migrations I mentioned earlier. Man, Voat had a great userbase back then with people really putting in time on coding, hacking, tweaking the site.
But you know thinking back more, the fatpeoplehate migration actually went pretty well. Admins were on the ball and after the first couple days of FPH taking over /v/all they went private. Even the servers got hosed but putt / atko were on it although IIRC it took about 1-2 weeks to all get sorted.
But FPH is still there and do their own thing. Same with the niggers crew although they did push /v/all in a new direction after their migration unlike FPH. I think of all the migrations FPH was probably the best and would have been much better if the servers could have scaled faster.
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