>>120971
>everything I like is dying all of a sudden.
At least in part this is just the natural course of things, times change. We used to have malls and mall rats, children playing outside unsupervised, social networks were less pervasive, forums were active, information was shared in the open instead of being confined to ecosystems created by major corporations. Old neighborhoods being slowly demolished to make room for whatever the current building trend is.
We lost most of that but gained something else in return, like the funny ai cat videos and affordable solar energy.
Imageboards are like rocks in the path of a stream of the current thing is.
This too shall pass.
> i can't even prevent it,
Partaking in the art thread is a worthy contribution to keeping this place going.
>>120973
The way I see it, disсоrd and r*ddit (possibly xitter too?) are siphoning the userbases from imageboards by offering bells and whistles, webapps, better mobile integration, easier tracking of (You)s for that dopamine etc at a faster pace too, to please the adhd crowd — in exchange for privacy. Some users are literally asked to submit their government issued IDs to access certain channels, that is vile.
Don't let it bring you down though, that's what they want.
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