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What other imageboards/futaba channel clones have nice technology boards like lainchan? I quit going to 4chan 6~ years ago for obvious reasons, I really liked lainchan, so I was wondering if you people would share other imageboards with me. With search operators in various search engines I mostly find desolate, inaccessible foreign boards with very little content. The other boards available on the imageboard doesn't matter to me, as long as there is a technology board.

>>33998 Technology is pretty much a dying topic as technology today is getting worse (as in more favorable for the elites and less favorable for the people). Most of the tech boards on altchans I know are either really slow activity or are dead. I'm not sure what would be a good imageboard to browse, but you should lurk around more.

>>34044 Care to name a few?

>>34044 >>34080 there used to be a lot of flourishing tech boards and primary alt-chans 6 years ago but very recently lost the user base due to the alt-right idiots who had ruined lots of imageboards by posting soykaf like manifesto and even getting the site seized due to irl shootings and threats. I guess it was a ploy to censor the imageboard community which itself is slowly dying, very frail, and exploitable. It's worth investing in archival of imageboards and mirroring archived ones the fact that they get wiped after one idiot or agent invades it or deem the information of "famous namefogs" was "dangerous" to their clandestine operations.

>>34088 The thing about those shootings is that it was all over reddit and facebook. But of course those websites weren't taken down. Wasn't it even LIVEstreamed on facebook? Anyway, I'm in a similar boat as OP. When 8chan got taken down I was surprised to see the /tech/ groups just disappear. Of all the boards to not make alternates/backups, I think it's ironic that /tech/ didn't. Lainchan is probably the best one. nanochan is good as well. There's Wired-7 if you speak Spanish. Wirechan seems good but is a bit slow.

>>34088 It's a generational shift. Image boards are almost 20 years old, a relic of the 00s internet. The older posters move on, young people have better places to be.

>>33998 >>34103 I've concluded that what we're looking for is mostly in semi-private (and frequently botnet) channels. IRC, Discord, Twitter cliques, Matrix, Keybase, Slack, who knows. I guess public websites just usually end up like >>34088 And I guess we aren't cool or connected enough to be invited.

>>34108 i want the internet to die already and be reborn as something else without big corpo trash and normal users

>>34108 The way of the future is going to be more and more closed online communities. I can't imagine opening up any online community, in any medium, to just anyone. Too many retards, and WAY too many astroturfing /lol/itics children.

>>34111 I can see more imageboards being TOR-only, i2p-only, or anoNet-only in the future if the clearnet is completely fuarrrked

>>34108 >I've concluded that what we're looking for is mostly in semi-private (and frequently botnet) channels. IRC, Discord, Twitter cliques, Matrix, Keybase, Slack, who knows I've also come to this conclusion. There are still nice imageboards like this one left, but they are slow and as soon as a board gets popular the alt-righters will appear and destroy it for everyone else. But it's hard to find those semi-closed communities, unless someone you already know tells you about them. Most of them probably don't even want to be too easily found, which is understandable.

>>34118 >but they are slow It's A Feature™ >as soon as a board gets popular the alt-righters will appear and destroy it for everyone else An excellent community can self-moderate (make them feel unwelcome) and mods can do so doubly. If you can get them to say your site is 'SJW garbage', without actually being SJW garbage, you're winning. They can move on to their other dens.

>>34118 Add a Lainchan CoC. Problem solved.

>>34124 Great idea.

>>34124 lmao that could work. it doesn't even need to say anything or actually be enforced. just start off with something like "The Lainchan community is committed to fostering a diverse community of users of all ages, nationalities, races, genders, and sexual expressions. In service of this goal, hatred and bigotry of any kind, including but not limited to..." and then it devolves into lorem ipsum text. they won't make it past the first sentence.

>>34103 >>34114 Nanochan quality has gone down to halfchan tier recently, but with significantly less speed than halfchan. Somehow Lainchan which is a clearnet board is in a better situation than Nanochan.

Maintaining a certain standard against brewing soykaf via an expectation of a minimum amount of effort in every post, combined with moderation against unwarranted & random hostility will automatically filter out progressive/woke-type undermining. The CoC idea sounds pretty funny, they'll assume an already conquered space and move on.

>>34130 Never forget that any community which amuses themselves by pretending to be fools, will soon be swarmed by real fools who believe they are in good company.

>>34130 yes, because it's 100% progressive and woke people who ruined other boards, absolutely not nazis trolls and r/thedonald /p*l/tards

>>34130 >Maintaining a certain standard against brewing soykaf via an expectation of a minimum amount of effort in every post, combined with moderation against unwarranted & random hostility The only worthwhile sentence in your post

>>34130 It's hilarious because the progressives spout the same paranoid nonsense about a conspiracy of alt-retards astroturfing the entire internet. This is 2020 folks, oppression claims and a siege mentality on all sides.

>>34231 >>34329 Presumably those dastardly nazi trolls lurking around the corner wouldn't flourish under the conditions I named either, so we're still on the same page.

>>34122 >If you can get them to say your site is 'SJW garbage', without actually being SJW garbage, you're winning. This is a fantastic idea. Throw up one or two SJW artifacts and they'll nope the fuarrrk out and tell their pals. It would be amusing to turn their favorite catchphrases into SJW jibberish as well.

I think there's also the fact that people are less likely to group together irl now. Kids in high school, college f.e. don't interact like they used to. So many online communities were born in universities, way back when. These days, people are more likely to unite under ideas than with their fellow human. Less constructed, sane conversation, more idealogeical soykaf-flinging. The real problem is that sturdiest communities aren't made purely of individuals, but many close-knit groups. Social media, the main method of social interaction now, promotes two kinds of interaction: mobbing with internet strangers, and connecting with people you know irl. As already stated, there is so little of the latter now- though it is a sturdier construct. The former however is very easy to get into. Formless, semi-anonymous (what with there being so many human beings and most people don't give a soykaf who you are really), and- maybe, most importantly- little investment in any one conversation. Anyway.. I'm kinda rambling at this point but. Hope you get the picture.

>>34384 >>If you can get them to say your site is 'SJW garbage', without actually being SJW garbage, you're winning. >This is a fantastic idea. Throw up one or two SJW artifacts and they'll nope the fuarrrk out and tell their pals. It really is brilliant. I'm going to do that the next public site I run. >It would be amusing to turn their favorite catchphrases into SJW jibberish as well. I like to annoy those types by taking the most cut-and-dried word in some dumb political slogan, and pretending that it's a worthy debate topic on its own. Last week I had a co-worker on the edge of rage, just by calmly musing on the meaning of the word "make" in the MAGA slogan. I was inventing fictitious feminist-Marxist academics and their equally fictitious published works about "making" being a feminine activity that suggested a latent desire for a man using the word to transition to being a woman. Dude kept on trying to steer the conversation to politics, and I kept playing Captain Oblivious and trying to discuss word meanings. Drove him nuts.

>>34150 That's why you do esoteric stuff that only extremists care about like having a CoC, and hit both sides (what's the equivalent? Having a 'blacklist'?)

>>34400 >what's the equivalent? Having a 'blacklist'? You know those little "I donated to the police" window stickers people put on their cars because they think it will get them out of tickets? Whatever the digital equivalent of that is.

>>34384 >>34398 Like the other anon said, if you pretend to hold retarded opinions as a goof, it's only a matter of time until the people with the real retarded opinions arrive and assume they're welcome.

>>34415 Follow the conversation, friend. --> >>34400

>>34088 please name a few so i can view their archives older the better

even the gopher and fe network is littered with the same human trash that has degraded everything else

>>34455 What are some examples of soykaf on Gopher?

what are some Google operators for finding imageboards?

>>34150 classic saying.

>>34128 Some persons skip around a text. It can't be so obvious as lorem ipsum. Maybe something that is so obviously (and immediately!) offensive to all would-be malefactors that they'd give up after the first few sentences. Obviously, it'd have to be some high-grade manure, or obviously contradictory but sincere-seeming so as to give the impression of draconian arbitrary enforcement, but so that it's obvious to anyone who's actually lurked that none of that crap's ever really enforced unless it poses a credible existential threat, be it technical, legal, cultural, or whatever else the participants consider essential.

>>34384, I like that idea, especially if it goes both ways. But of course one must be careful to not do it too broadly, so that legitimate discussions aren't censored thereby. All jargonesque phrases should be cancelled, because (1) you can always rephrase it in plain langauge (2) the plain-language version is actually something that everyone can understand, (a) too often, jargonesque phrases are spewed without actually understanding what they mean, (b) being required to phrase it in a way anyone could understand would mean they actually come to understand what they're saying.

>>33998 Depends what you mean by "nice." 16chan has a decent tech board that allows posting via Tor, is relatively free of consumerist advertisement threads (and also doesn't censor the word "sh*ll"), and is slow. It also has a fairly good anti-poz/anti-normal person immune system, which is what you want in a chan. May or may not be an ASIS honeypot, though.

>>34529 How about: >In order to foster a more tolerating environment, Nazi-associated terms such as "4chan", "Kek", "Pepe", "Wojak", "Soyboy" and "White" will result in an immediate and permanent ban. >>34531 lol it's a false flag, you don't enforce the damn thing!

>>34734 >[second part] whoops disregard that I kick whales down the beach

>>34129 someone mentioned nano on 4chan(? or 9 or 16ch) and a tard infected nano. the internet as a whole is dying. it uses spyware hardware with spyware apps to visit spyware tracking websites. why bother? learn to knit and do something more useful instead.

>>34793 It was definitely shil­led to 8ch thats how I found it

>>34793 >the internet as a whole is dying. it uses spyware hardware with spyware apps to visit spyware tracking websites. why bother? >neurosuggesting the internet is a homogeneous system >neurosuggesting spyware is unavoidable or unblockable or untrickable >neurosuggesting spyware == why bother

>>34128 Replace gender with sex (or leave it out) and you'll scare actual "SJW", too. The alt-right people won't notice the difference, and all that's left are normal people. Win-win.

>>34799 ...That's actually pretty brilliant, I wonder if it would work

>>34128 >"In service of this goal, hatred and bigotry of any kind, including but not limited to..." Nazism, white supremacy, anticapitalism, feminism, antifascism, atheism, ...

>>34814 hahahaha perfect. add: >materialism, transhumanism, utilitarianism, anglo-imperialism, neomonarchism, australianism, civic post-secessionism, anarcho-globalism, pre-industrialism, regular industrialism, anarcho-industrialism, calvinism hail eris

>>34088 >alt-right idiots who had ruined lots of imageboards by posting soykaf like manifesto and even getting the site seized due to irl shootings and threats. >>34150 > it's 100% progressive and woke people who ruined other boards, absolutely not nazis trolls and r/thedonald /p*l/tards I think most people have the wrong ideas about internet trolls, most of them do not believe in any ideology. Their main purpose is dilution, misdirection and control of an uncontrolled internet forum. They use techniques like forum sliding,consensus cracking,topic dilution, anger trolling etc therefore imageboard users should watch out for these techniques & not be on the look out for trolls pretending to be far right or far left. https://cryptome.org/2012/07/gent-forum-spies.htm Do not think that its just Russian bots, (disinfo agents) or Chinese CCP , (50 Cent Army) or FBI cointelpro agents, are the ones who use these tactics to control and manipulate discussions on a internet forum.Every country does this to protect the status quo and influence public opinion. The establishment wants you to believe in a fake left vs right dichotomy and they want you to waste time , get frustrated and be discouraged from having any meaningful conversation. Nothing good is accomplished from the fake SJW progressives vs fake far right extremists discussion.

>>34821 Esoteric post-anarcho-theocracy is not allowed either! Out! hail

Adding a barrier to entry usually helps, you can also try stylizing it with a heavy anime theme to deter alt-right trolls

>>34832 Barrier to entry also deters persons with certain intellectual disabilities, such as depression, executive dysfunction, or being busy with other work, that aren't harmful in-sum beneficial to messageboard culture.

>>materialism, transhumanism, utilitarianism, anglo-imperialism, neomonarchism, australianism, civic post-secessionism, anarcho-globalism, pre-industrialism, regular industrialism, anarcho-industrialism, calvinism >Esoteric post-anarcho-theocracy I'd further exclude: determinism, post-prefixism, antidisestablishmentarianism, corporatism, astigmatism, listism, the twin evils of godless communism abroad and liberal humanism at home, any religious expression that conforms with my opinions, metaphysical libertarianism, rationalism, empiricism, radical pragmatism, and of course literalism. Sleet!

>>34107 >relic of the 00s getting older :/

>>34824 >Nothing good is accomplished from the fake SJW progressives vs fake far right extremists discussion. Another thing is, that, where I live, this kind of discussion simply doesn't exist (or it's too insignificant to be noticed). The only place where I get confronted with this is the internet, especially from globalized discussion boards with a lot of American (I mean the continent) influence. Interestingly, I'm also active on a German imageboard, and in the last 4-5 years I have noticed how it increased in this "SJW vs Far Right"-discussions and the "American way" to discuss politics.

>>34824 >The establishment wants you to believe in a fake left vs right dichotomy and they want you to waste time , get frustrated and be discouraged from having any meaningful conversation. Because you are so important and dangerous """they"""" have to stop you organizing and spreading the "truth" online, right. Another explanation is that it's just simple economics. Conflict and outrage creates engagement. If you're running a media platform and make money from showing people ads then the most effective way to keep people addicted to your platform is to promote obnoxious, illogical, controversial content that gets people riled up and coming back for more. That's basically what we're seeing. One news site runs stories about how terrible the "white supremacists" are. Another website runs stories on how terrible the "social justice warriors" are. Then the two audiences full of indignation and self righteousness meet on a discussion platform, or even in the real world now, and fight like cats and dogs.

any boards discuss physics, dna, cutting edge science, mad science etc? if not im gonna make one

>>34854 The language enhancer here is already enough, but that coc is also good just to make sure. >>34873 How do you know that lainon isn't? It's the same with what people say about big corporations. > You are crazy it's not a conspiracy, it's just that big corpos influence politicians with money... WHY? what comes after maximizing profit? I'm not saying it's world domination but can we be really sure? It's also the same with data, yes ads can be loaded with scams or simply contain dangerous code but mainly our concern with info is we don't ultimately know how they will use it. So it's not entirely impossible for governments/powerful groups to control people, just swap data/meta-data with attention in almost any argument you hear about surveillance. I agree that it's economical but what else is possible when we let "them" have and control what we pay attention to and ultimately what we think? >>34881 This

>>34884 >How do you know that lainon isn't? People partake in conspiracy theories because knowing The Truth makes them feel special and pretending that The Establishment is out to get them makes them feel important. It's a LARP to fulfill basic psychological needs that some people are lacking. >You are crazy it's not a conspiracy, it's just that big corpos influence politicians with money... The crazy part is thinking that all the "big corpos" are on the same side working towards some grand unified vision or something. Instead of struggling with each other on the free market to keep their relative place in the hierarchy.

>>34887 This makes sense, but what I'm saying is the line between the feeling of self-importance (the image of people with neo profiles or awakened one under political videos comes to mind) and the genuine desire to help people by spreading info is blurry. like what >>34824 said What do I know I just played deus ex recently, shouldn't have said anything lol

>>34887 >The crazy part is thinking that all the "big corpos" are on the same side working towards some grand unified vision or something. Instead of struggling with each other on the free market to keep their relative place in the hierarchy. >>still believing in "free market" propaganda >>>2020 Do you sincerely believe in free market bullshit? Really? After 2008 crisis and bailouts of banks? Hell, even me, a LITERAL NOBODY, knows about local 3 or 4 IT companies that are blueballing the programmers by talking to each other if one of their programmers jumps ship and goes interviewing around. That way they hold down the salaries and keep the competition on the job market together holding each others back. Hell, I even read in the newspaper couple of years ago about bakeries in few towns over talking to each other about price fixing so that they have the same prices. Free market implies that government won't jump on your neck and tell you how to do soykaf. Free market implies that you are actually free in the first place to do monetary decisions besides governments planning.... which sorry to inform you we (most of the west world that prides itself on its freedom) isn't really a free economy.

>>34888 >the genuine desire to help people by spreading info At best that's just autism. You can't help people by lecturing them. You need to listen and understand before you can give relevant information. >>34889 As things are the market is not as free as it could be. Doesn't change my point though. The notion that rich people randomly become rich through magic and don't need to lift a finger to maintain it is leftist delusions.

>>34873 >Because you are so important and dangerous """they"""" have to stop you organizing and spreading the "truth" online, right. The "truth" matters & that's why the status quo has to stop us from organizing & spreading it . Why do you think censorship exists? Why do you think authoritarian regimes persecute peaceful dissenters ? Why do you think Chinese media gets upset over a picture of a man standing in front of a tank ? Because resistance is not futile & they know it. >>34887 >knowing The Truth makes them feel special and pretending that The Establishment is out to get them makes them feel important. It's a LARP to fulfill basic psychological needs that some people are lacking. So if the statement "The Establishment is out to get them" is true & you could provide evidence to support that statement then It's a LARP to disseminate that information?What? >Truth makes them feel special & gives them a feeling of self-importance If people have information that is true & if the public benefits from knowing & understanding it, then the people disseminating that information are very important. Do you not understand the abstract idea of a conspiracy ? a plot? a ecret plan? etc >The crazy part is thinking that all the "big corpos" are on the same side working towards some grand unified vision or something. Instead of struggling with each other on the free market to keep their relative place in the hierarchy. Ok is this is just bait. "big corpos" become big corpos through A public–private partnership (long term government contract & subsidies) NOT through struggling with each other on the free market.

>>34890 In no place no one ever said anything about rich people becoming reach without lifting a finger, that's not even leftist it's mostly people's cognitive dissonance keeping them sane. Some people just work hard and have nothing to show for it (or some are lazy and use that to justify their laziness). We are not talking about this though, we are talking about the cause of this inequality and the plausibility of a greater plot not the inevitability of it.

>>34891 >The "truth" matters & that's why the status quo has to stop us from organizing & spreading it . Why do you think censorship exists? Why do you think authoritarian regimes persecute peaceful dissenters ? >authoritarian regimes There's your answer. Why do you think that liberal democracies have no need to censor the internet in the same way. Occam's razor says the reason you fail to convince people with your theories is because they are soykaf, not because of an evil plan to censor you. >So if the statement "The Establishment is out to get them" is true... Obviously the implication was that it's not true. You just want it to be true. Unfalsifiability is the foundation of all conspiracy theories, in case you didn't notice. >If people have information that is true & if the public benefits from knowing & understanding it, then the people disseminating that information are very important. The assumption that your information is true and beneficial is the problem though, fren. Of course you think it is, because that's what makes you feel very important. Doesn't make it so in reality though. >Ok is this is just bait. "big corpos" become big corpos through A public–private partnership (long term government contract & subsidies) NOT through struggling with each other on the free market. Talking to a commie about economics is like talking to an incel about sex.

>>34892 >In no place no one ever said anything about rich people becoming reach without lifting a finger, You said "what comes after maximal profits". As if "rich" is some terminal state. What I'm trying to tell you is that the same soykaf you go through to keep your wealth relative to the people on your street is the same soykaf that goes on all the way up the hierarchy. There is no "after". Of course groups of people cooperate and try to influence politics. But the idea that you are not rich, therefor all rich people are working together against you is a fallacy.

>>34895 >The Jewry is the enemy therefor all Jews are working together against us. >The Patriarchy is the enemy therefor all Men are working together against us. >White Supremacy is the enemy therefor all Whites are working together against us. >The Bourgeoisie is the enemy therefor all Rich people are... Spot the pattern?

getting a little off-topic here... <_<

>>34124 Once you have the need for söycaf like this it's too late. CoCs are a cancer. If you need one it's too late and it attracts the opposite of the alt-right: people who are not interested in tech but only in CoC enforcment to feel good about themselves. I normally don't have a problem with what is stated in a CoC, but it still inevitably poinsons a community

>>34384 >>34128 The problem is that this leats to actual SJW feeling welcome and populating the board. please no

>>34824 Even if some of these trolls aren't bad people, it's still a massive problem to the online discourse. Sometimes you just want to talk to people online but that's not possible if $SITE is constantly filled with what amounts to spam.

>>34108 I agree with this. I host a small Matrix room and invite people as I meet them. That is, if they are intelligent enough to have a real conversation without soykaf-flinging.

but what imageboards are there really besides 4chan something much more active than here preferabely

>>34103 i checked out wirech, it's just full of feisty, not-of-age 4chan zoomlets and /politically incorrect/ users oh well, if it's easy enough to discover by asking or googling then it's suceptible to corruption by normans

>>35021 There used to be plenty, even some fairly active ones. The owners either grew out of it or got tired of the sort of idiots that are attracted to these sites. There are some niche ones with long running communities, like 1chan.net if you want to discuss pictures of railways exclusively. Most of the chans I went to are long gone now.

>>35063 actually I've never been there >>35043 I'm on a long-lasting, reasonably active site but it's quiet enough that new users are rare and polfa­gs lose interest (there's a nice amount of center+apathy, so any extremist on either side is outnumbered and laughed out of the place)