Kind of a funny development.
the pendulum has left the conservative right and moved to the "progressive: (conservative) left
Social media censorship makes people with these views want to go to messageboards which support free speech
The grasping for last remaining straws of meaning as they're escaping our reality is getting desperate. Will Evolian cosmology, being batshit insane notwithstanding, be vindicated at last?
It's not just the evangelical boomerfaggots violently thrust on the chans by qanon facebook LARPs, you know. Neo-paganism, neo-barbarism, neo-spartanism, neo-antiquity are all the rage now on tiktok, though the kids may not even realize it. Will we live to see neo-rome arising from the ashes of that?
At the end of the classical age we realized that our commitments and norms are not written into nature or the mind of God but just our way of doing things, and we can change them if we want to. This led to the absolute freedom and terror of the French revolution and Enlightenment as human-kind attempted to redesign itself from the ground up, trying to use "reason" to structure society. But then it was found that reason was just as ungrouded and arbitrary as anything else and only contained the basic idea of self-legislation without any direction for that self-legislation to take. Thus we got stuck in our current era, half of the people don't believe in anything but the rule of self-legislation, the rule of not accepting any rule beyond themselves, and half the people believe in unrelenting dogmatism and inner conviction in an attempt to stave off the reality of freedom, that no one can hold us to our commitments but us. Thus, the two political persuasions currently in existence.
i think it is because, over the last 30 years or so, we have always despised "normal people". currently, normal people are universally preaching for things like gender non-binaryism, transgender encouragement, anti-racism (minority fetishism?), child drag events, open borders, etc. for some reason.
Lots of answers in this thread. Unfortunately, they're all wrong.
>>21
I hope I get to neo-burn neo-witches at the neo-stake
I'm a Marxist anyway, so I fall outside the reactionary pole.
>>22
Interesting post.
>Thus we got stuck in our current era, half of the people don't believe in anything but the rule of self-legislation, the rule of not accepting any rule beyond themselves, and half the people believe in unrelenting dogmatism and inner conviction in an attempt to stave off the reality of freedom, that no one can hold us to our commitments but us.
>the reality of freedom, that no one can hold us to our commitments but us.
I think this is a great line.
Right-left politics seem to have become a disliked topic on imageboards and even on really cancerous I haven't seen a lot of /pol/-type posters in a while.
As for religion, it helps a isolated people cope, they like the aesthetics or they're mentally ill. People who still use imageboards tend to fall into these groups
I feel like all social media is just saturated with propaganda. There's no logic to it, ideas just want to perpetuate themselves, and the people who benefit -- whether in the form of a cheap dopamine hit, the comfort of feeling like you're part of something larger, those seeking an answer to all the problems of life, or for more substantial reasons like power and money -- are willing to invest time in doing so. It's like a memetic virus that infects people, and social media is the memetic equivalent to a coffee shop.
Right after the founder personally called the furfags out for being degenerate freaks and threatened to come after them for their FELONY crimes.
Fur fags taking on Republicans. Just another day in the life of a psycho. They should do it live. A no holds barred kumite. A gay tranny fur fag in a suit vs Kevin Roberts. No rules. Winner takes all including the loser's anal virginity. Give the children a front row seat next to Don King and watch the judges draw penises on their scorecards. An all American night. The undercard will include a live performance of Joe Rogan masturbating.
Project 2025 wanted to ban porn, or in other words destroy the very foundation of chan and textboard culture.
We should celebrate these furry hackers as heroes.
>>4
they want to ban porn for underb&s. I don't like republicans but "Project 2025" is incredibly exaggerated.
>>5
You do realize all these bans are just steps towards ID for acccess? It's another step towards totalitarianism like China.
>>5,6
to that point, I'd like to point out a number of American DMVs, including that of Florida, have been caught selling citizens' data to third parties. The issue is that America has no problem selling out its citizens to the lowest, most negligent bidder.
>>6
Politicians in the US have admitted they've been inspired by Chinese internet censorship for a while, and by both parties, particularly in California. Did you really think they would let the internet status quo go on forever even though they control most platforms english speakers use?
I also can't believe the "Project 2025" shit made it here lol
also this link/leak is fucking nothing lol
>>10
I only used that example because a Californian politician was the only one off of the top off my head that ivoked China by name and was supposed to make the point that wishing to emulate their policies were a bipartisan goal
https://archive.is/rbmHP
It seems like the web is getting harder to use.
Or maybe I'm just getting older.
I am not adapting well to the future at all.
i see no problem, op.
i can still browse this site on my iPhone 17 XXR Pro Max Ultra
Something I deeply hate about modern web are the tables or objects that don't load instantly and move everything on the site every other second.
Do you want to click this little link? Too bad, it moved to load our ad.
Oh, you think you got it this time? Fuck you! It moved again to load an empty box begging you to subscribe/turn off ad blocker!
You thought you were done? Have a funny pop-up show up exactly where you want to click! Now you have to input your email address DIPSHIT!!!
The new authentication standards and machine learning legislation companies are pushing for could be really bad
>Speaking of the link directories, why hasn't anyone made a wiki style link directory that anyone can contribute to? Perhaps it already exists but a quick search gave me nothing worthwhile.
I've been thinking about something like this. Kinda want to make a wiki + imageboard for "weird website exploration". You know, like for cataloging indieweb projects + "weird" shit like ARGs, etc.
Think there'd be enough community for something like that, or is that too niche?
>>35
I know this won't be helpful, but DMOZ existed, which may have been similar to what you are describing (I've never actually used it before went offline.)
>>41
I'd think that there is definitely a community for that!
If not, at least 10 other people and myself will visit your website, although I genuinely encourage the creation of something like that.
On a side note, here's a link dump thread some of you may find interesting.
http://secretareaofvipquality.org/read.cgi/saovq/1444128918
>>41
feel free to use https://wiki.gikopoi.com
>>35,41
Well, I think at a certain scale, that kind of project inevitably becomes a search engine, because nobody can be asked to keep up-do-date with it all, and small, static sites are very ephemeral.
To that point, there's marginalia.nu, and there's also that premium Kagi search engine that I think focuses on human-made content for a ridiculous fee.
I think Gnome has found a good compromise in between the trendy superflat style and the far more practical skeuomorphism of 2000's ux. You can certainly tell what all the icons are supposed to represent. I think the two things inhibiting people from using more skeumorphic design is the fact that it's not in style and that it's more technically challenging than superflat design and therefore requires more resources. But, yeah, the original iOS icon pack was perfect; we had no idea how good we had it.
I once uploaded Kareha onto a server I was running from home, purely just to test the software and study the code. I didn't advertise the board to anybody, and only made three test threads. Amazingly, after having forgotten about the board, and coming back a year later, I found it full of spam and links.
Everybody knows about textboard spam, wakaba's /soc/ board was removed after being spammed to oblivion, the site that wrote the original gazouBBS (futaba's sourcecode) script's demonstration boards were also full of spam comments written in English, so on, we've all seen it.
Where is it actually coming from though? Has anybody ever gone down the rabbithole of internet spam and bots? How do they find no-name sites that nobody visits? What is their end goal? Who actually runs these bots? Is anybody even running these bots or have they been on autopilot for decades? Is there a network of spammers? What is your experience with spam?
Within the past three years or so, "scambaiting" has become a popular genre of youtube and twitch content, with people investigating tech support scammers and robotcallers and whatnot, but I feel like nobody really cares about the rabbithole of people spamming on websites, when it is just as vast and fascinating.
Here's an interesting post. Apparently, it isn't bot spam at all but coming from commercial CP peddlers. They seem to hit the most active boards on any given site.
https://trashchan.xyz/meta/thread/374.html
>>53
This kinda confirms what I already knew, that it was manual spam.
https://desuarchive.org/g/thread/98445659/#98450771
Here's a link.
Necro, so it wouldnt have been known as well back in 2021 when you posted, but androxgh0st is a (now) well known malicious web scanner that tries to scan sites for exposed credentials and then tries to use those credentials to compromise your assets so that they can be used as part of a spam botnet.
Feds have good details on it now https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/cybersecurity-advisories/aa24-016a
androxgh0st will probe a page with POST requests sending strings similar to what you mentioned in the message body, so if your form method is POST on the emailer page, it may be taking that message body and doing the needful with it and sending it to you as an email according to whatever logic you have setup to handle the form.
>>55
That's something that has been bothering me for so long, you could look up the most random of queries like "steven universe background art" and get those sites
>>53
that is old as fuck lol the owner of jschan (tom) had discovered that the cp poster was a real person
null has mentioned once or twice that he thinks it's feasible the background radiation of spam to be prevented, but that Cloudflare, Google, etc. choose not to because they passively profit from it. I don't know how that's possible, but perhaps the specifics don't even matter, as long as the incentive structure is there. The actual spam is just entropy in principle.
And it doesn't help that very few people actually use the clearnet and are instead populating the massive darknets that have cannibalized the Internet such as the site formerly known as Twitter, Facebook, Discord. And I do mean darknet, because you can't access any of that stuff publically, can't even scrape most things anymore; you need to make an account and an api key -- and even then, it's not easy to get a clear picture of what's going on.
Tonight I'm doing a play through of the albums by the Aquabats.
They released a new album , Kooky Spooky.
Currently 2 songs in and it's halfway good.
i like konpeito.media stuff
> Endless - SwiM
http://ubuntu.hbr1.com:19800/trance.ogg
some trance music they got there, nice radio.
These days I mostly just listen to the radio via SDR and a couple big antennas outside my house. I can hear shortwave stuff from other continents, local FM or AM stations or long and medium wave stations from hundreds to thousands of kilometers away. There's always something to hear and it's interesting since I don't really know what's on or coming up.
If I'm gaming or something and don't want the static that comes in, I just play game music or I will pick something from http://http://radio.garden. Lots of neat stuff there with better quality. While playing an MMO earlier I had on a good station from Taiwan.
>>38
thanks anon for that link, its amazing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU-K8SEx8_o
This is what true internet enthusiasts listen to.
This station rules, I loaded it into my internet radio player a couple days ago and have been listening to it daily now. Thanks for the recommendation!
Gikopoi is a fun 2ch-themed Flash game -- it's similar to IRC or a Habbo Hotel without AIDS. We got:
What do you think of this game?
General discussion, chat, secrets, rumors, etc thread!
bump courtesy of guts from berserk
Forced anonymous serverwide on gikopoi.com for April Fool's day, additionally all users are the Sageru Bee
I'm confused should I play Gikopoi or Gikopoipoi?
Ugh, when did Gikopoipoi get full of pedos?
At least the nazi problem is kind of dying out...?
>Ugh, when did Gikopoipoi get full of pedos?
Where do you think you are?
I like to think that /iaa/ isn't full of pedophiles and that you're in the minority.
I only usually visit this textboard, I don't know if there is any other one in English that is just as active, i would enter 2ch or 5ch but I don't live in Japan and I don't even know Japanese
Obviously here
Also SAOVQ, sageru.org dis.tinychan, textboard.org, bbs.gikopoi, boards.graybox, etc
>>2
faggot
Looks like SAoVQ is being DDOS'd?
I can't post there or on the PostOffice.
>>2 is right. That is the most active textboard even if it sucks Kuz’s AIDS ridden cock.
This thread was obviously made only to be repeatedly bumped to shill shituri.
Where can I go now to get my BEES fix???
It's up to me.
Another light flickers out. The darkness draws nearer.
The queen will take flight and a new hive will be born... one day
Did anyone notice that Sageru.org came back?
https://forum.y8.com/
Best forum on the internet.
How long has that site been up? I remember playing flash games on some site that looked like that (the homepage y8.com I mean) and had a name like it, sometime in 2008-2010.
Seems kind of normalfag-ish over there but i agree with this poster the only good thing about the site i love young girls.
is this what an alpha male looks like?
>Good at biking, good at scooter, good at karate, good at BMX, and good at math. just your regular old 9 year old Cool Kid.
mogged by a prepubescent boy :(
>>7
yeah, how long has the flash site been up?
>>11
This gem of a website says 2006: https://unanything.fandom.com/wiki/Y8
It kind of freaks me out that kids still use forums, I vaguely remember a forum specifically for kids to discuss music and it got the crap raided out of it constantly.
weird and ugly
For as long as I can remember, you searched for images like
/search?tbm=isch&q=your+search+query
Now it's
/search?udm=2&q=your+search+query
This pisses me off! Everyone knows isch = image search but it is not clear at all what "2" is supposed to mean.
No idea but i think its gay and it pisses me off.
mm the 2 is supposed to mean image, because if you search udm=18 it will give you only results from forums (very useful), i think its a new format they made to classificate media?
Idk what the rest of the UDMs are
As far as I got before getting bored:
1 - all
2 - image
6 - learn
7 - videos (also tbm=vid)
13 - news (also tbm=news)
14 - web
15 - attractions
18 - forums
24 - mystery
26 - also videos? And social media????
28 - shopping (also tbm=shop)
37 - products
38 - videos, but 0 results