Zlibrary.org - a book archiving site with many instances, has had an instance closed. There are other instances, but centralized sites (like Voat) are vulnerable to censorship like this.
https://www.voat.xyz/viewpost?postid=6365de5a05cc8 Voat needs to find a distributed platform which is more resilient than its current, centralized home and the search should begin while co-ordination is still possible.
To help start the search, here are two viable options, which can be used as points of comparison to any other suggestions:
Aether:
https://getaether.net Plebbit:
https://github.com/plebbit/plebbit-react/releases Aether is more established, battle tested. Plebbit will hopefully and eventually become even more resilient and effective against censorship. It is currently under active development and is hiring javascript developers, if you are interested.
The Voat communities on Aether /b/ and on Plebbit /p/ are here:
Aether:
aether://board/f2c944108971c509c3718a43e8bc77d95d3591746241b6a490e537f00122d98d
Plebbit:
p/QmSkZ7KSeFWDvSUDua7sshzinp2rPeKtYTXULFZ16mfcXk
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https://miro.medium.com/max/3272/1CoOeROiKmvViwed1hrJMfw.png
If you use Aether, you are also supporting the network infrastructure as you are running a node. This means Aether has no financial overhead and would never need nor be influenced by 'funders'. Aether does not serve images, so there is no real issue with adverts, spam or pr0n. (You can enable thumbnails to permit viewing linked images in your client, if you like, but this is disabled by default.)
Aether is text-only. The Fediverse is more popular. If you want to use the Fediverse, the last I heard, Pleroma was the way to go.
There is a page explaining how Aether differs from other protocols here:
https://getaether.net/docs/how_is_it_different_from/