Notices by Some Purple Cat (purpcat@boks.moe), page 6
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@D00B @burner @pyrate @bronze @Ghislaine @grey I saw a good 4chan post about that community years ago and I still reference it.
https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/343398830
Namely; it's a bottomless abyss of self harm and suicidal thoughts and drug use, and even when they score wins on their targets they feel nothing.
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@D00B @burner @pyrate @bronze @Ghislaine @grey look at the comments on the Linus thing, a good chunk are shitting on the choice and I don't even mean ywnbaw but genuine "dude lose weight and detox" comments followed by simps trying to attack anyone who dissents.
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@Red_Hat @burner @pyrate @bronze @Ghislaine @grey @D00B
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gonna start using chatgpt to generate responses for interview questions
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@xianc78 @RustyCrab @gabriel @GrungeQueef I don't like how Discord is full of alphabet people at every corner and I'm sure they will throw me under the bus if something happens, I don't need that shit IMO.
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@xianc78 @gabriel @GrungeQueef @RustyCrab It's also imageboards just aren't culturally in vogue anymore, like BBSes and IRC were after a while.
Aside from imageboards being extremely vulnerable to a AHS style "posting CP to own the chuds" attack or the even easier "fedposting to own the chuds" attack, imageboard culture has been diluted hardcore thanks to everything from the infamous 4chan jannies to the fact that people don't give a shit that much to sacrifice everything to run a site like that.
But most importantly IMO, I think the #1 thing killing imageboards is simply people online use different communities now in 2023, be it Discord/TG/Matrix groups or social media in some form. When you're trying to find friends and communities online, why post on a dying imageboard when you can go to Discord. Like it or not, you're dragged kicking and screaming because that's where the people are at and you're not. Before the 8chan thing, it was already in terminal decline.
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@RustyCrab @Ash Not a lot has changed, other than a few journalist meltdowns.
But the thing is, Twitter has the pull it does because of the power of normies on the site. That power is fading now sure, I've literally heard Sirius XM DJs talk about I shit you not, getting e-mails with song requests now on his personal e-mail he linked to his website outside of SXM and at least one of them fucking put his email address in the station display instead of his Twitter after he deleted it. But most of them still use FB/Twitter solely. It says a lot they'd also rather use e-mail over the fedi.
The only thing that would actually kill the site IMO is if Twitter had it's own Tumblr moment, in which Twitter bans something so much of the site posts or uses that tons of big name users have to go because of the new rules. The result would be just like the porn ban on Tumblr, a cataclysm of the internet. Right now most websites are still reeling from the effects of that porn ban.
Elon Musk isn't even the same kind of fiasco that a porn ban would be, and even that wouldn't hurt Twitter as much as it did Tumblr because the normie who wants to keep up to date on filtered news or wants to look at shitcoin Twitter for how to get rich quick will still use it.
In fact, I'm thinking both posts I've read in this side of the web and lefty papers about their style of censorship; they will use social media to socially engineer people with bans. A lot of normies will fall in line to keep their social media accounts and Xbox Live accounts, the most they'll do is bitch about the propaganda in a game before going back to playing or saying "yeah this TV show was great except for the propaganda".
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Dialing into a bbs with my pc-9821ra20 with windows 98se #retrocomputing #retrogaming #dialup #56k #bbs
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@mint @bronze Doesn't even shock me with how hard they were clamping down on it.
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@bronze @mint That's nothing.
I heard that the "clown pepe" image pattern colors were being used to track the spread of that meme a while back.
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@crunklord420 @Tadano @mint I found out MK wasn't much better when it comes to CORS from a friend though to some degree and even worse the cross origin policy is very relaxed on it.
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@lewdthewides >Mastodongers can try to be the next twitter, but the very nature of the fediverse is very anti-influencer, even down to its structure.
It's interesting because all sides are very anti corporate.
Mastodon is full of the worst of the Tumblr/Twitter "mob" who will bully people and corporations for the slightest thing (see the RPI saga). Oh and they bullied off Wil Wheaton early on.
The "free side" is anime tits, ass, racial slurs, 2012-15 era Twitter shitposting, and the Leslie Jones Twitter saga replaying every time some celeb joins.
The Japanese side is cat photos, art, and loli art.
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@lewdthewides @Tony @Kirino My problem with it is that it's much more centralized.
So imagine if some ex big tech CEOs and employees saw what Mastodon was doing and wanted to do the same thing, but with more jannies. That's the idea behind it. Furthermore, these people want shadowbans on federated networks.
Case in point, look at the infamous Decentralized Web of Hate paper from a Mozilla Fellow:
https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/fellow-research-decentralized-web-hate/
https://rebelliousdata.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/P2P-Hate-Report.pdf
The mindset from the big tech and college rich kid crowd is that they will gimp the protocol or give the Tumblr mob censorship power to stop the bad people on p2p, and that's the idea behind bluesky IMO. Shit like Pleroma/Misskey having security holes is a happy little accident.
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@lewdthewides @Tony @Kirino See: Bluesky
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@Tony @lewdthewides @Kirino Which is nice. There's already websites for consoomers like Reddit and Twitter. They see no reason to join the fediverse and have no reason to as they're not banned from Twitter.
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@Tony @lewdthewides @Kirino Which is the point of other websites trying to steal other websites userbases.
See; Facebook marketplace. It's like Craigslist if you had extra tracking/spying from the Zucc. It's crazier than CL in the sense that there's either expensive shit being given away for free or boomers who "know what they have".
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@Ash @RustyCrab Here's the thing though, ActivityPub introduces one question that never existed on Twitter: "what instance should I join". The answer for most ends up being either Mastodon for leftoids, Poast for rightoids, or Misskey.io and Pawoo for the Japanese. Of course people from Poast end up making new accounts once they're balls deep in the culture, but how many people from Mastodon instances end up moving to others and not going back to Twitter, especially when their instance of choice shuts down like FreeCumExtremist and Sleepy.cafe did just now, without warning?
Muddying the waters is the fact that the Fediblock Wall or Rainbow Curtain exists and that a certain segment of fediverse promoters advertise only servers that resemble ResetEra in rulesets. The end result? People join, get banned, go back to Twitter where as long as you're not Kevin MacDonald or posting edgy memes you can get by a lot easier even if only 4 people notice your posts screaming into the void.
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@RustyCrab my multi user instance is literally going to be just people I know on telegram and vet first and all because I hate normies
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@Tadano @verita84 @mint had a friend look at misskey
It has no csp 🤣
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@alex @Tadano @mint pleroma devs trying to fix a security hole
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