@Moon @p @wjmaggos @amerika @jeremiah That's a good point. maybe nothing lasts forever, not even whatever the opposite of a hugbox is.
4chan is an interesting case study but I think I can brush it away by saying it got too big and there were active interests to tire out moot, force a sale, and replace it with something more obviously business oriented.
I think the pressure should be to keep the Internet big but its roosts small, so that in decentralization there is resilience. Keeping ads out by any means necessary is step one, because the second your community becomes a Business with a capital-B , you have lost it, as it has drawn the attention of the great eye of fire which will consume it.
Behold my elaborate, post-hoc justification for saying any old horrible thing you want.