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The problem with the internet right now is twofold: its de-balkanization, and that forums were always a terrible format for discussion.
Forums first: the actual text of a post is supplemented by a however-many-lines-long "signature," far too many "statistics" like number of posts (who gives a shit) and member since (also who gives a shit), and distracting avatars. Nothing is threaded, posts appear in groups of potentially unrelated 10s or 15s. To top it all off, themes are almost universally shit. Forums are terrible.
Meanwhile, search engines try to find content they know you'll like or at least click on. You see less and less variety by design, and search providers have a vested interest in showing their own services (or affiliated sites, or sites that use their ad services) first. Social media integration in everything both reduces anonymity and, since no comment plugin can ever stop at just being a comment plugin (that doesn't make money), increases load times.
Commercialized search indexing has killed all creativity on the internet, stripping sites that would otherwise be useful and popular of their reach and growth potential unless those sites sell out, becoming just as bad and bloated as the rest, to fund search indexing promotion.
Usenets somewhat mitigate this, as does IRC or Discord or whatever. But there needs to be something better. What's out there that's better, /g/?
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actually the problem is (((them))) trying to take away free speech
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>>61093272
>What's out there that's better, /g/?
Basically what I want to ask is "what's an effective way to find new internet platforms?"
Tixati uses some sort of p2p chat/threaded forum, but nobody uses tixati. Are there similar systems?
>>61093282
(((They))) are only trying to control speech because controlling speech is profitable. Is there an alternative which cares nothing for profit?
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i miss when i was 14 and used to hang out on a homestarrunner fan forum. we were all just kids and spent hours crafting these weird online personas via our avatars and signatures
it was a simpler time
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>>61093282
no one is taking away your free speech asshole, just now that the internet is a bigger more interconnected thing there are more consequences to what you say.
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>>61093304
>another victim (((they))) brainwashed
sad.
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>>61093303
I miss when newgrounds wasn't such shit and albinoblacksheep still did things
I also kinda miss madness interactive mods
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Not using the fucking services?
You're not going to change the world because the world is ruled by the majority of drooling normalfags.
They don't care, never cared and never will. For them to be concerned about an issue, said issue would have to hit them in the fucking face like a speeding truck.
Facebook is easier and doesn't require using a brain, why use anything else?
Just embrace your inner neckbeard and hang with the like-minded people on specialised forums and IRC
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>>61093312
>me being an intolerable asshole is a jew plot
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>>61093282
>join US hosted website
>get banned for saying nigger
baka senpai we used to have free speech in this country
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>>61093320
>You're not going to change the world because the world is ruled by the majority of drooling normalfags.
I don't care about changing the world, I'm fine as long as I have a few little corners of it to myself and other people like me.
I'd hang out with people on forums, but forums are universally shit. Even steam discussions are better than forums
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>>61093320
>Just embrace your inner neckbeard and hang with the like-minded people on specialised forums and IRC
This right here
specialized forums that are behind a login wall are goat
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>>61093272
>talking to people on the internet
This isn't the '90s, kid. We're not on a local BBS or an IRC. The internet is for social networking now.
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>>61093614
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
I hate the infinite stream of social networks that don't give a flying fuck about an actual purpose and just cater to as many retards on their ad-ridden phones as possible
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>>61093614
>>61093863
but you're not wrong
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>>61093272
>the actual text of a post is supplemented by a however-many-lines-long "signature," far too many "statistics" like number of posts (who gives a shit) and member since (also who gives a shit)
t. join date june 2017
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>>61094028
2011 actually, but I just hate visual clutter
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>>61094496
So your solution to visual cluter is information density of a pictogram and a gay css? Fucking hell 4K screen to display youtube and a few imageboard posts.
ps. decent album
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>>61093335
This. Infinity this.
People can say whatever the FUCK they want, but sites go to complete shit the more they get used.
When populations are over a certain threshold per-topic on the same site, there is zero space for good discussion to happen.
When it comes to auto-purging sites like 4chan, it makes it even harder for that to happen.
Any time the DNS issues happened on here, it was great. It felt like back in 2005 days. People had time to actually make decent discussion and content because 70% of the site were RIP.
Then it started functioning properly again and quality crashed back to whatever year it actually was.
Then you have cunts like moot who were so against splitting up boards.
Admittedly because he was a fucking retard that never knew a thing about development and had the assumption more boards = more overhead because more boards automagically duplicates every session because reasons. Oh, wait.
Secret Societies, web rings, private registration, all of them massively increase quality by keeping out bottom-feeders and low-tier trolls.
I MISS good trolls. Trolling these days is "lol u mad" "no, [well thought post]" "HE MAD LOL!".
There's no effort. Simply because sites are a clusterfuck of users all shitposting off each other.
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>>61094668
>So your solution to visual cluter is information density of a pictogram and a gay css?
basically yeah
It strips away everything that's not relevant to the discussion at hand and that's really what I care about
4k screen is for gaymemes and movies, though better font rendering through brute force is pretty nice too (especially on windows' shit-ass font rendering)
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>>61093312
>everyone who disagrees with me is just brainwashed
GOOD argument
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