>>520075imageboards for non *chan users would be the best form of internet community, but they'll never happen. 4chan is the black hole at the center of this dead universe.
>>521156for the most part that's undesirable ephemerality. your embarassing teenage twitter account you lost the password to stays up forever as a permanent humilation, your playlist of songs you've loved for years disappears overnight. your imageboards are archived forever and your useful software archival project is DMCA'd instantly.
>>521165dead internet theory is a comfortable version of the truth: that some sites shape their userbase in such a way that they're barely distinguishable from bots.
(this is usually for commercial reasons, but sometimes - like 4chan - it just comes from incompetent administration, cowardice, and a lack of vision.)