[aleph_minus_one]

> On the other side, a lot of it wasn't sustainable. Just how many forums just vanished all of a sudden as the owner died, ran out of money or was simply fed up moderating bullshit and infights, not to mention the ever increasing compliance workload/risk (yeeting spam, warez and especially CSAM)?

But also lots of commercial social media sites and forums disappeared, because the company got bust or changed its focus.