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It's weird, because 2channel recently had a big user exodus. A lot of users used desktop clients. Those were banned in a push to monetize. As a result, a lot of 2ch users started lots of 2ch replacement subreddits, the largest being newsokur: https://www.reddit.com/r/newsokur

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The exodus was from the Kenmou board who refused affiliate marketing on their board they claimed was data mining their IPs. The desktop clients weren't banned, just really old browsers they were using were no longer supported due to new methods of embedding ads. A lot of them used legacy browsers like this one which is no longer in development https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazehakase

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