Why did the imageboard die? - /g/ (#105762722) [Archived: 594 hours ago]

Anonymous
7/1/2025, 7:44:19 AM No.105762722
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Popular social media platforms donโ€™t replicate the experience in a more convenient way like Reddit did with forums. So why did they die?
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Anonymous
7/1/2025, 7:45:19 AM No.105762730
>>105762722 (OP)
Reddit is based on link aggregator sites which also died, retard
Anonymous
7/1/2025, 7:45:48 AM No.105762732
>>105762722 (OP)
normgoids flooded the internet and killed its soul. started with the iphone btw.
Anonymous
7/1/2025, 7:52:47 AM No.105762777
>>105762722 (OP)
they don't offer any benefits over alternatives for others.
>talking to friends?
SMS/social media works better
>showing off?
social media
>working?
slack/VoIP/normal cellphones etc.
>hobby topics?
forums still exist but discord is a better platform for organized communities
>privacy?
again discord or telegram/signal
>anonymous shitposting?
pretty much the only usecase left

also im pretty sure it has to do with privacy as an overall theme. socials are dying because of the era of employers ruining careers over facebook posts by 21yos. after that you can get privacy through anonymity, exclusivity, or both. people seem to prefer the exclusivity/partial anonymity provided by discord.
Anonymous
7/1/2025, 7:52:57 AM No.105762779
>>105762722 (OP)
Where did he get such a long shirt/dress
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Anonymous
7/1/2025, 8:06:08 AM No.105762863
>>105762722 (OP)
They didn't die. There's the main site (4channel) and second tier altchans. Same way there's Twitter and second tier bluesky and mastodon or whatever.
For every different social media usecase there's one big site and some shitty copies
Anonymous
7/1/2025, 8:07:02 AM No.105762870
Something new has to be invented. We are in need phase.
Anonymous
7/1/2025, 8:07:11 AM No.105762872
they were never popular, this site is just an english speaking ripoff of 2ch. literally
>faggot nerd forum, japan
Anonymous
7/1/2025, 8:10:18 AM No.105762885
The only appeal of this website is that i can write NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER and my tranny dei coworker wont know that i actually want him to hang ximself
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Anonymous
7/1/2025, 8:41:57 AM No.105763090
>>105762722 (OP)
4chan exists to call people you disagree with names, optionally with a crying wojak pic.
Social media does..?
Think about it, including the bigger reach of social media, plus the ability to silence tards.
Anonymous
7/1/2025, 9:03:39 AM No.105763224
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>>105762779
he stole it from me
Anonymous
7/1/2025, 9:08:08 AM No.105763252
>old 4chan
The fight for eyeballs on page 0
>nu 4chan
Perabumped chatrooms
Anonymous
7/1/2025, 9:51:55 AM No.105763511
>>105762885
>him
uhhmm, sweaty...?
Anonymous
7/1/2025, 9:56:50 AM No.105763546
too slow for zoomoid brains ruined by tiktok, unappealing culture for oldfags

I'm here because the anonymity allows a unique social experience, but for someone who doesn't get the appeal of that (which isn't obvious from looking at the site) its a poor experience
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Anonymous
7/1/2025, 12:06:08 PM No.105764376
>>105763546
>unique social experience
We were calling each other niggers and attaching idiotic pictures over NNTP in the 90s.
Anonymous
7/1/2025, 12:47:25 PM No.105764647
>>105762722 (OP)
It's not just imageboards, every online discussion platform is dying. Forums, IRC and textboards died long ago, wikis are dying, digg was replaced by Slashdot which was replaced by Reddit which is dying (replaced by discord). YouTube killed all video hosts then because an advertising platform with no real room for discussion.

Normies are fine staying in their tiktok and Instagram bubbles eating whatever garbage the algorith serves them and nerds are segregating themselves into discord servers which are unindexed and moderated by trannies and glowies.

The internet is little more than a gigantic billboard and psyop distribution method right now. Most of the people you talk to are bots or paid shills