Their main point is to "avoid the censorship of reddit".

And wasn't that pretty much the point of reddit when people left digg?

I mean, the problem you run into here is that as things grow and become more popular, you somehow have to make money to keep it going. Hell reddit makes money and they still have trouble keeping the oops page from showing. At some point, if voat grows and takes over for reddit, they'll be in the same boat having to sell advertising and premium features to pay for the servers. And then they'll have advertisers to appease, and pressure to remove the sketchy subs and limit mod powers and yada yada yada.

So to me hearing that Voat is all about avoiding censorship is great, but I'd be much more impressed if they laid out a plan for how they intend to continue doing that once the site grows to reddit scale (assuming it ever does). Starting up a new site with the promise of free speech and hands off moderation is no big deal. Growing that site is what's hard.