@Looming I can replay the follows from the January 11 backup if you want. It has not been done automatically for anyone (for obvious reasons), but it is an option if you want that option.
@p@Looming >It has not been done automatically for anyone (for obvious reasons) That would've been fun. I remember poasties getting spooked by people moving from noagenda to noauthority and migrating their follow lists, thinking it's DA FEDS. Imagine that but on a bigger scale.
@childrapist1488@lina@Looming@p I would've replied wit a suitable jak but I'm too lazy to switch to a different browser to complete the McChallenge humiliation ritual.
@mint@lina@Looming@p /biz/bros are on /bant/ now but yeah, that was gay, also the waiting 5 minutes to make a thread, or another 10 to make a new one is pretty humiliating. I'd say sharty is now on par with 4cuck
I'm hoping that my Quest contributions are ultimately for the better, but I won't sit here and pretend, either: I brazenly shill my zine with them. Here are the threads:
About 4chan; I would have thought Old Meme made that clear. I left before Boxxy and after Chocolate Rain, it was already intolerable for me by then. (Bring back Snacks.)
Apparently /b/ isn't anonymous anymore or something like that. And I wrote off the captcha stuff because I thought it was just my setup: I don't touch most of the web without Tor being involved and my browser has "maybe run JavaScript sometimes" enabled (Seamonkey is patched and has uBO and most of the places in about:config where you can forbid JS from doing something, it's forbidden). Apparently the captchas stop everyone except feds and people that give not-moot $20.
> I'm hoping that my Quest contributions are ultimately for the better,
Doing a thing usually results in things being better.
I think fedi's a better place. I forget what it was called ("boardfe"?) but someone had done a *chan-like frontend for fedi. I believe it was usable enough to simulate a chan. Or you could possibly roll out your own fchan instance.
@Cookieman@lina@Looming@p@NEETzsche@mint Gooning originally was a fetish where guys 'embraced' their porn addiction, and say all sorts of gay shit. Gooning is the act of 'edging' (delaying cumming) for hours at a time, and sometimes never cumming, or only coming after hours of delay. the more extreme the fetish got the more extreme the setup becomes bigger, with a bunch of screens playing at once.
It began in around 2020~ and is often combined with other awful fetishes like furry or blacked shit.
mid-2023 it became a meme, and now is just an alternative meaning for porn addiction, or jerking off. I dont know if its worse that its main stream, or better because its being made fun of.
you'll find many unironic gooners on the 4chan /trash/ board, or more famously on r/gooncaves on reddit.
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.
@p@Cookieman@childrapist1488@lina@Looming@NEETzsche Pretty much every chan has some sort of CP problem that could only be mitigated if you have a team of people monitoring it 24/7. With federation, the issue is multiplied by the amount of nodes; there's a reason why there's only one fchan instance left that only federates with itself.
I'm talking about good ones. Anything that is good ends up here, even if it didn't come from here.
> wojak, pepe and soyjak are all 4cuck memes.
Pepe was old meme since forever, it might be older than :pedobear::cockmongler::happynegro::sandwichchef::shoop:. Definitely older than :tayzonday: and that meme is old enough to vote. The other two aren't really fresh; they occasionally funny but are so over-used that I can't even see them any more. /pol/ ate 4chan and now everything is a soyjak.
> memes are usually made on twitter now, at least the ones zoomers like. not to say anything of there quality of course.
If we're going to talk about "popular memes", then we'd be talking about all the cursed boomer shit from Facebook and the shit teenage girls post on Instagram with no picture, just some fuchsia words in a pseudo-cursive typeface, "when a boy knows your favorite Starbucks order". moontarp.jpg
so are Mogging, gooning, mewing, and general incel lingo that are popular right now where on 4chad for a while, but the rate at which memes come from 4chan is a lot lower now.
memes are usually made on twitter now, at least the ones zoomers like. not to say anything of there quality of course.
@childrapist1488@Looming@NEETzsche@dcc@lina@mint Yeah, I saw you say it; my point was that I said "the memes", not "the memes normies like" or anything like that. I thought I'd be more specific, but then reasoned that if I live my life like I'm worried someone's gonna Reddit me, then I'll never be able to have a conversation. Then you Reddited me.
@p@dcc@lina@Looming@NEETzsche@mint Sure, I just said popular though. But yeah, 4chan has a very low OC rate nowadays. most talent left a long time ago and now its just newfag larpers getting baited 24/7
@NEETzsche@dcc@lina@Looming@p@mint I'm a giganufag, its not that i hate newCHADS (otherwise the site would only contain 40 year olds) but newfags are super easily baited by the most obvious, low tier bait.
nothing can save 4cuck at this point, the userbase is too big and retarded.
I saw this happen in real time to soyjak.party, now its 24/7 bait posted by discordCHADS and trannies and unironic 14 year nazi larpers fall for it constantly, i can only imagine how 4chad oldfags feel.
the major boards like /v/ or /g/ are literally unusable, threads are literally either bait or softcore porn, no inbetween.
There's a delicate balance to be found between niche things and broad things. On the one hand, niche things attract the most interesting content, but on the other hand, there's less reach. Reach does matter. You want to find something that's niche enough that it doesn't involve a bajillion normies, but open enough that there's more than one (1) person (you) interested in it lol
> Federation won't save imageboards, i think they're bound to be 'niche' forever.
He's running quests, he doesn't need for image boards to be saved, just some software to enable this activity.
What's wrong with them being niche? Niche stuff tends to be more interesting: either it's focused on something interesting, or it's at weird shit that you haven't seen before. Focus broadens when more people show up.
> Fediverse also is not growing much.
People say this when they are bored with the people they usually interact with, not when they actually see growth taper. There have been maybe 40 new instances a day for the last month, look at the chart: http://demo.fedilist.com/ . The low point is 31. Look at @fedilist.
@p@dcc@childrapist1488@lina@Looming@NEETzsche@mint Maybe if they weren't making everything political and most other avenues online didn't ban opposing viewpoints from the typical modern zeitgeist, 4chan wouldn't be full of politics on non-political boards. That being said, modern 4chan sucks. No OC, no fun, no creativity, it's just fistshaking at people that disagree with you. As dogshit as Twitter memes are, it's unironically better at making OC at the moment.
@NEETzsche@dcc@childrapist1488@lina@Looming@mint Yeah, I believe that; people hunting invisible /pol/lacks. I wonder how much of that is feds or people that want to push the opposite politics versus people that had an allergic reaction to the intrusion of politics and now view complaints about the intrusion of politics as equivalent to the intrusion of politics. antifa_takes_out_4chan.png failed_to_infiltrate_4chan.png
There's a really weird contingent of 4chan users now that likes to think everything that isn't a wokester faggot is "/pol/". For example, I sometimes go into the World of Darkness general to post shit like pic related and there's often someone there will accuse me of "being /pol/" because I think making the Vampire: the Masquerade, Fifth Edition de facto main character a gay nigger Muslim feminist and explicitly requiring your playerbase be exclusively full of trantifa is worthy of long-term ridicule.
> Maybe if they weren't making everything political and most other avenues online didn't ban opposing viewpoints
Never let your opponent pick the battlefield. If the problem is they're injecting their politics into apolitical stuff, and the response is to inject the opposite politics, then the problem still exists.