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>i remember checking nntpchan a couple of times, i am a bit fuzzy on what it was like but i feel like it had an even worse spammer problem and barely any posters
Depends on what you mean. It did mostly die pretty early on, I wanna say the only time it was relatively active was 2017-2018? And then 2019+ was the twilight years but you still got some like nano-like posters. The safe harbor stuff also knocked it's populous around.
I feel like your standards for activity are totally inapplicable for that sort of site though. You can have sites with <7 posts per week that are alive and kicking, it's not uncommon for torchans or alt/jp/s or whatever. It had bad spam problems only on the nodes that mirrored clearnet nodes, and clearnet is always cancer.
Spam is free speech
>barely any posters
Yeah purported technical issues that I never really looked into aside, this is practically the only reason it died.
>interesting concept
Kind of premature. The realistic answer is that something like that will be an IPFS-over-i2p or similar solution with distributed storage, which means that centralization will be over content policing (and therefore trivially reversible and also salvageable in the case that the main contributor(s) step down) but while a lot of people have hacked together working solutions I'm not aware of a real IPFS-over-i2p or similar solution besides maybe what libgen is using these days, and at the end of the day libgen is just an iteration of a gateway to a single torrent file and is ultimately held up by this underlying concept.
>pretty sure the reason is because if they didn't they'd get ddosed by some petty autist who felt slighted because his cp thread got deleted or cp bombed and then reported to their host to get taken down
Lolnah. When there was the drama with the fujo paying for botnet sites to ddos sites the owner of smug was going to switch to just the onion if necessary. Anyone who picked up cloudflare is a collaborateur, and some of them obviously were from the start. It's an incoherent concern because there's no reason to have a host who cares and a ton of solutions to get around it, and it isn't even really a thing in the first place. The sites that sprung up from federale efforts were obviously gay from the start and the ones that were already there seem to mostly have become retarded by some kind of conspiracy.
I mean, zzzchan was literally a by-reddit-for-reddit site founded by 8ch refugees whose first interaction with imageboards was through twitter in the late 2010s. These people weren't exactly adverse to heavy handed censorship by government adjacent entities, they're clout chasers and nothing more.
>cp bombed and then reported to their host to get taken down
Way bigger organizations than some random autist have tried this tactic and it's been demonstrated not to work if anyone actually fights it (e.g. iqdb).