I think he's referring to the "anonymous benefactor" that gave it a cash injection and has kept it afloat past being deplatformed by all payment providers - in addition to the fact that it's warrant canary has been dead for over a year. If I had donated a bunch of money to Voat, I certainly wouldn't stick my real name (or even a pseudonym) on it.

Ultimately it doesn't matter who is financing it - because you should be practicing good OpSec everywhere. It's still uncompromising from a free speech perspective, and that's all that matters. One of my comments even made it into a trash liberal rag (Vice) trying to get the site cancelled, I never got a ban or even a warning.