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Federation won't save imageboards, i think they're bound to be 'niche' forever.

Not to say 4chan is niche, 4chan is the largest imageboard by far, but its userbase is far, far smaller than reddit or twitter.

I think it will forever fall into obscurity, no new imageboards are made, if they are they die quickly. even kohlchan, and soyjak party, probably the second and third largest image boards respectively still has a stagnant userbase/barely growing.

Fediverse also is not growing much. it had an influx to mastodon after elon ruined xitter, but not much.