I don't buy it. Expect people can always figure out who you are if they want to based off your username. But what are they going to do with it? Maintain a list of a bunch of internet trolls and larpers? Waste of time. No one thinks they're a threat. Nothing you say it's illegal unless there is a direct threat, which they seem to be pretty bad at monitoring. Voat is fucking useless at gathering data unless you want to know if someone has a fantasy of a dead German leader from 70 years ago. Phone metadata is infinitely more useful because of positive identifications such as facial recognition, location, fingerprint. Voat is a waste of time... If you're worried about someone finding what you post on voat, look at everything else you do. Do you own a phone? It already knows everything about you. Why would they care if you post bullshit that may or may not be true on voat. Just look at what computer generated scripts think voat and 4chan users say. It's useless gibberish. Careful clicking the below link, no one seems to know where it came from, possibly a ABC experiment on machine learning or psychology. http://phonograph.lhohq.info/index.php?start=255