@PurpCat @eidolon @Forestofenchantment @Inginsub @suquili I still can't see the fedi ever fully replacing imageboards because with complete anonymity, posts are judged by content and not by the user. You can see how even on here, having IDs means that people will block, mute, or just ignore you if they don't like your opinion (and we see this on both "left-wing" and "right-wing" users). IDs give every user a reputation, regardless if they are connected to your real identity or not. Eventually, you have the elite users that people will always listen to and the users who made enough "bad posts" that even if they make a good post, they will still be ignored.
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xianc78@gameliberty.club's status on Saturday, 27-Apr-2024 04:20:17 JST xianc78 -
xianc78@gameliberty.club's status on Saturday, 27-Apr-2024 04:35:43 JST xianc78 @PurpCat @eidolon @Forestofenchantment @Inginsub @suquili Which is why most 8chan bunkers are hesitant about hosting /pol/ boards. And it seems like the glowies only ever bother fedposting on those types of boards.
As far as I know, the only problem that 8moe had to go through was being dropped by some CDN because the CDN in question was hosted in Russia and the Russian government told them to drop them, so they went with Cloudflare instead.
There are thousands of imageboards and textboards out there. I don't see them going away anytime soon.
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Pawlicker (purpcat@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Saturday, 27-Apr-2024 04:35:44 JST Pawlicker @xianc78 @eidolon @Forestofenchantment @Inginsub @suquili That's nice and all but the problem is in America 2024 you can get an imageboard fucked over with some Cheese Pizza you just so happen to have access to, or by simply imitating Alex Linder or Hal Turner online and making threats to some Jewish hospital or some shit.
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xianc78@gameliberty.club's status on Saturday, 27-Apr-2024 04:50:22 JST xianc78 @PurpCat @eidolon @Forestofenchantment @Inginsub @suquili And that is what attracts the fedposts. It makes no sense to fedpost on a board like /v/ unless you can come up with some credible threat to blow up a video game studio. But that's another advantage of imageboards (or at least forums in general). If you don't feel like talking about politics 24/7, there are other boards. Sure, political discussions will naturally bleed in, but it's not like here where your feed is 80% talking about the joos, advocating for TND, or talking about the latest distraction.
Which is quite a shame because a few years ago, the fedi seemed a lot more laid-back and open minded compared to other "free-speech" communities, now it's filled with these RW-podcaster types that I find even more cringe than most /pol/ users.
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Pawlicker (purpcat@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Saturday, 27-Apr-2024 04:50:23 JST Pawlicker @xianc78 @eidolon @Forestofenchantment @Inginsub @suquili oh yeah, pol also attracts the bottom feeder garbage who just want to argue about politics and shit -
Pawlicker (purpcat@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Saturday, 27-Apr-2024 04:58:15 JST Pawlicker @xianc78 @eidolon @Forestofenchantment @Inginsub @suquili I actually miss the furry imageboard scene and I hate how when it died, in typical furry fashion they fucked off to Discord/Telegram 💀 -
xianc78@gameliberty.club's status on Saturday, 27-Apr-2024 04:58:15 JST xianc78 @PurpCat @eidolon @Forestofenchantment @Inginsub @suquili Yeah. All the niche boards are basically gone now. including the other political boards that weren't about NatSoc politics (e.g. /liberty/ and /monarchy/), though the leftypol bunker seems to be going strong.
Though /v/ and /tech/ were the boards that I love to go on the most, so it isn't a huge loss for me.
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