They are having a much harder time getting back on line than I thought that they would. If then end up only being available on the dark web via Tor then, for all intents and purposes they are effectively dead.
Gab was able to resurrect their site, but it took months. When the eventually re-emerged the old content was there, but they had a new URL (Gab.com, replacing Gab.ai I think).
As others have mentioned 8chan is the home of Q, so shutting it down is putting a crimp in Q, though I think there are many other ways that Q could easily find to post his messages that would not require him (them) getting all of 8chan up.
But with any of them there will be potential for authenticity issues. (Where as most people who understand the 8 chan "tripcode" system believe it's secure and that Q and only Q has been posting under that moniker on 8chan.
Q previously migrated from 4chan to 8chan, which was claimed to be due to security concerns.
Under the previous regime the Internet, which the USA invented with a lot of funding from DARPA, was administered by the commerce department. All the registrars and then the URLs flowed down from the commerce department.
As a part of FedGov they are strictly controlled by strong First Amendment constraints. Eventually even someone with extremely distasteful (but not illegal) views was going to be able to get a domain, because the Government can't not give you a domain anymore than they can refuse to give you a postal address.
But, Obama gave control of the Internet away to an multinational NGO that set itself up for just that purpose. Now they are the ultimate aribtrar of how the URL and DNS allocation system works, and if you don't like it and sue them some judge will just say "well, they are a private entity, so it's not censorship when they choose not to give you MAGA site a URL".
We know the courts will say this, they say this about Google already.
So, Obama made tyrants and control-freaks very happy with his gift of the Internet to ICANN.
The Internet Is Actually Controlled By 14 People Who Hold 7 Secret Keys
The useless Republicans didn't put up much of a fight to prevent this.
I agree with you, if access method becomes more complex, the site dies.
Your history of Q migration is mixed up, but even a huge mixup in the history is inconsequential.
I do find the various means of manipulating the beliefs of segments of the population to be fascinating. The official narrative is losing its persuasive power (not many people trust the government or the press to tell the truth), but in the end that doesn't matter as long as the elections can be controled, and the elits have the law and legal force of violence behind them. IOW, being morally just isn't necessary to rule. Brute force and propaganda gets the job done.