>>/10916/ 
> Holy crap I dislike dealing with accounts. More accounts = larger attack surface, so not great for privacy and security.

Bots and spam = more accounts. Many places used to have much less frictionless account creation and more freedom 10 years ago. Attempts are made to set mild standard so the average idiot can't just type in "12345" or "password". Spambots made accounts, and later verification emails,almost  mandatory for running anything but a small sight or imageboard. Outside of a medium scale, the solutions don't necessarily fix the problems, and if your site is large enough, doesn't really mater much to a dedicated attacker. I understand a place like Twibooru having an account system due to being unable to constantly monitor and the potential for influx of posting at times from people dumping stuff there, but you're still right overall, because if we get past that scale into small scale social media territory then the site would just be an appealing target for spambots and potential agendas and all that gunk there would do very little to stop that flood.

> Hope I don't see my fucking email and password leaked in plain text when or if Twibooru gets hacked in the future.

The entire codebase was rewritten from scratch off of the old booru on rails system from derpi that they abandoned. It is either total crap or the best and most secure in security knowing that sort of profile.    

 >>/10915/
Might be worth studying that place beyond pony, as very active but not very large. How did that survive? What is the culture like? I think the problems that we are complain about here could be remedied with more/small to mid sized places with healthy and alive cultures. The mono cultural melting pots that Titter and Reddit only damage and suppress and often when all you have a bunch of dead, forums and boards with a few bitter hold outs,  far right /pol/lacks, and techies of various stripes and political leanings, they haven't been able to make much culture and OC on their own most of the time small pony fandom places might be an exception to this. From MLPforums, to even here I guess, I still see active content and OC being made on a small to medium scale.