Voat failed quickly because of the "no censorship" implemented which allowed garbage to congregate. Of course people left because it was nothing but shit.
Voat was great at the beginning until it became a right wing cesspool.
But 90% of the posts were about Reddit and circle jerking about how Reddit was so bad. I'm blocking posts/communities that talk about Reddit here to help clean it up.
To be fair, I just checked all and found a couple of nice meme subs I haven't subbed to yet