I agree about the part of being backed into a corner, but there's another thing: some guys there want it to be a circlejerk. I remember when justgrowit started to get traction, some guys would go there to sabotage the sub in comments. It's not even liberal content, it's just non political content. But the argument is that normies already have reddit for normie content, and if normies come to voat, they'll be taken by SRS. It's fear of another expulsion, I understand the idea, but it damages voat.