Voat is under extremely heavy load.
it looks like they are crushed under the heavy site traffic that they have gotten due to the recent reddit events.
i wonder if they can come close to reddit's number of users...
Why not? It is a free market. Voat has a chance of success if they implements their strategy properly. I quite like their three possible options for partner program payments, which is like content rewarding scheme. More writers would rather go here for writing and sharing content with users and users will be more willing to come here as well.