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>dwarfed by random fetish discords
I can't confirm or deny because I don't keep up to date with the happenings on discord.
I hear they are super anal about some of their rules and it's easy to have your account permabanned if someone reports you for random posts that include a number that is below 18.
Besides, they comply with the UK age control and require users to scan their faces apparently? And the whole thing got breached just a week or so ago? I mean for now you can get away with just proompting a face but this eagerness to follow the rules means they will keep complying.
>pretty much irrelevant,
I'm not sure, ru 2ch is pretty huge. It's got feds on staff now tho, afaik. And the politics-related boards are being watched.
>killed the no-account models of platforms.
I suppose so. Seeing how we have cookies tracking # of posts, email verification etc here, at this point I wouldn't mind if an imageboard that was being harassed by bots introduced something akin to a temporary account. This, of course, still hinges upon devs keeping up with AI tech and mods not being literal coprophiles, so that rules this place out.
>Imageboards have no future,
What IS the future, in your opinion? I am rather pessimistic in regards to the unrestricted chatting on the web in general. Xmpp? Matrix instances? Both are just as susceptible.
>There is not really a solution that is able to salvage the model as long as (state) actors shell out liquidity to contractors
As far as large enough social platforms are concerned and the actors' interests are involved, yes. They have an edge here.
For now it seems that the one way to get by is to be small and niche enough to go under their radar. But, for a community to not just wither, there needs to be an influx of new members so balance must be found there. And the rules can change at any time.
Maybe some kind of invite-only / vouch platform would work? With mods being able to track how the bots got in.