Comfy Alt Chans

What are some comfy alt-chans that you visit? For me it's sushigirl.us dreamch.net and lainchan obviously

>neurosuggesting I will give to you my private chans so you can soykafpost on them nah, I seen your lainchan kind, you're not worthy

>wow i'ts another vichan/lynx board with garbage functionality of mid 00's web forum centered around javascript >it has /random/ board >rules and mods are soykaftier than on halfchan

I have tons of chans bookmarked but lain, 7chan and certain 8ch board are the only ones I frequent now

meguca is comfy af desu

>>6300 Second zis.

ssh einchan@einchan.god.jp pass: ein ssh bit@whisper.onthewifi.com pass: byte

>>6306 yeah it looks really slick, I wish it were more lively

lolcow.farm

>>6509 The OP asked for "comfy" sites mate.

>>6509 >lolcow.farm This is cancer

ernstchan.com/int

Kiwifarms

>>6509 Second this Good one, really funny content 10/10 IGN

I'm pretty sure you guys have already heard about thins one 4kev.org

Most of the posts in this thread are saddening I cannot think of any alt-chans I visit other than Lainchan and its Alice fork (less frequently) Perhaps someday I will be far enough along in Japanese studies that I can get on 2ch and at least "flounder" through the language the tinest amount, from which I can bootstrap my knowledge and learn (granted, a clipped memey version) but learn quickly regardless

>>6523 Actually new to me.Thanks lainon!

Does anyone know what's happening at sushigirl.us? Whenever I try to access it I get connection reset. Also, here is a neat textboard that opened recently. https://ral.space/

>>6532 >Does anyone know what's happening at sushigirl.us? Whenever I try to access it I get connection reset. if you live in the US, i would say internet throttling i usually have similar issues, but mine is my ISP having DNS problems

>>6533 http://uboachan.net/ Seems to be why, though I don't frequent sushi myself

>>6532 I just got this at sushigirl.us > Something went wrong during an emergency reboot initiated by the hosting provider, and the Sushigirl/Uboachan server won't boot anymore due to a broken OS. >It may have been something I did since the last reboot that caused it, but we will probably never know. >Thankfully, the hosting provider kept a full image of the server, so we shouldn't lose a single post. >However, it may take a few days for me to reinstall the operating system and move the files back into place, because I have several other things going on right now. >I will try to get everything up and running in a timely manner. > >- Seisatsu

7clams.org, tohno-chan.com, aurorachan.net, desuchan.net (there's also a desuchan.org), wizchan.org (though the community there is even worse than this one)... There was hikkichan.com, but it died recently. :'( There's a textboard called goatfinger.ga. Honestly, though, a lot of the people here would fit in best on 4chan.

There's a huge Google Doc made by some guy called Creamy that has a comprehensive list of imageboards, but there are a lot of dead ones. There's also http://fyib.uselessirc.net/, 1chan.net (really cool one about trains), and mechachan.net. I think there's one called mewch.net, but last time I went it was almost dead and just a bunch of literal Nazis.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1t10VI-sccy1CfAeMZHwmCS_7agIHFo_B5ipMjzsMtTg/edit Here's the document. And I just remembered another one: arisuchan.jp.

>>6538 Thanks for the list, I like visiting small chans and see what I can find. Time to begin exploration

>>6536 >hikkichan got run over by normal users claiming to be a hikikomori as a fashion statement. Some people moved over to 8ch /hikki/, it's small yet comfy board now

>>6535 I see, I had the https link bookmarked and it doesn't automatically redirect to the http page. Thank you for posting this. >>6538 Hastebin for anyone who wants to avoid using gdocs: https://hastebin.com/raw/ijuzolazeb

i used to post on hikkichan until it was kill >>6525 it may be a clipped memey version but it is still better than nothing, you seem competent enough to be able to continue improving it further down the road. baby steps!

>>6537 >a bunch of literal Nazis it's unfortunate that this happens to boards that are otherwise legitimately good in terms of offering freedom.

>>6554 >Hastebin thank you anon. i thought it was only me who always had second thoughts about clicking gdoc links

>>6538 >arisuchan.jp How new are you? This was lainchan.jp just months ago.

>>6537 > 1chan.net (really cool one about trains) Most folks don't know this but 1chan is older than 4chan. The admins of each site were very good friends. I don't go there much now because it's so dead these days. Besides, my interest in trains is a little different from the old guys there (they're foamers, a few others were rail employees, I was a hobo. They don't like us much).

>>6556 It's also why more and more "invitation only" communities are appearing. It's the only way to keep out the creeping hordes of basement dwelling scum. The downside is you don't get any interesting strangers popping by randomly.

mayoichan it's new and dead but comfy and maybe has potential

https://himasugi.org/jp/ http://www.4taba.net/ http://kakashi-nenpo.com/ http://tohno-chan.com/ http://doushio.com/moe/ https://samachan.org/ https://no-you.com/ https://ota-ch.com/ https://not4jp.ml/

http://314n.org/ Imageboard that emulates a commandline terminal

>>6562 off topic but i found an image on tohno-chan that changes when you open it. How do those work and what's it called? image attached is what i mean this is the link in case it doesnt work when i attach it http://tohno-chan.com/navi/res/1521.html#i1536

>>6560 muh secret insider trade club

>>6562 Thank you lain, I've been looking for a decent /prog/ board for a long fuarrrking time.

>>6560 yeah it seems like the benefits outweigh the risks though. hense why you see a lot of whitelist only minecraft servers that advertise

>>6561 >mayoichan link? can't seem to find it >>6568 what do you think of goatfinger.ga/prog/ ?

>>6570 Seems to have tor derezzed (could just be my identity for now) If it doesn't allow tor I don't go. Thats why I like this place and some of the ones posted.

>>6571 >he believes in Tor >even though time correlation attacks and US gov having control over a lot of Tor exit nodes Dont worry, I will soykafpost and CP post over Tor for overtime just for you f4ggot

>>6514 This I agree, they permaderezzed me for something I didn't even do.

>>6572 Works for me. Probably just your exit node was derezzed.

>>6574 >blindly believing your exit nodes Stop digging up your own grave m8

This is the best place. But I visit some local chans, and as I'm learning russian, I always try to understand 2ch and 0ch, but its very hard.

>>6567 > insider trade club ...not even remotely relevant to what we were talking about. We were talking about assholes who feel the need to flood every single website in existence with their political nonsense.

>>6536 >7clams soykafty community

>>6572 Time correlation attacks and US gov exit nodes are too but TOR is still better than having nothing at all in many cases.

>>6579 >Time correlation attacks A time correlation attack requires an attacker to monitor both your exit and entry nodes at the same. Tor changes circuit every 10 minutes and entry nodes are chosen from a small pool of trusted nodes and rotated much more slowly. It is not a trivial or foolproof attack. >US gov exit nodes Exit nodes can be a problem because this is where Tor encryption ends. If your destination does not use encryption too (like https), then the exit node can read your data and modify it. And anyone can setup an exit node. The Tor project tries to mitigate this problem by bundling https-everywhere with the Tor browser which will encrypt all websites with ssl if the website supports it. Additionally they constantly scan for exit nodes that play tricks such as removing https links from webpages and blacklist them from the network. >[Tor] is still better than having nothing at all in many cases. Yes you always need what's called a threat model when you talk about security. Just because a person with a big hammer can break your door does not mean you should not lock it.

>>6564 old alpha layer trick see: https://imgur.com/gallery/UG4v9

Hey Lainchan. Uboachan is down due to a server failure. But it's okay. Thankfully our backups are stored on a different server, I mean we're not idiots. Feels good to have competent admins, doesn't it?

>>6299 desu wizchan used to be pretty good but once the mods stopped being reasonable, and the influx of normans resulted in people putting arbitrary conditions for 'true wizard', you get a community of people who all think they're superior to one another, and that's never much good for discussion all chans seem to meet this fate eventually, at least it's not as bad as 4ch

>>6599 I don't understand why normal people would want to go there. Once or twice I thought it would help if I read some posts by people even more pathetic than me, make me think life wasn't so bad, but it had the opposite effect. I felt ashamed to be called homo sapiens after that.

>>6608 it doesn't seem all that bad to me. keeping the chads at bay is the exact charm of the board.

http://www.operatorchan.org/ http://4-ch.net/4ch http://afternoon.dynu.com/letterbox.html http://secretareaofvipquality.org/saovq/

>>6653 I had all of these except letterbox, thanks anon.

>>6594 i thought that you guys closed the server due to spite of the new yume nikki

>>6742 I had the same suspicion, I thought at least they were trying to avoid a massive influx of new kids

>>6742 >>6744 >The hosting provider forced a reboot to patch over a critical CPU-level security vulnerability that was discovered recently affecting all operating systems. Our server did not survive the reboot. It's unknown whether I broke something or they did, since we hadn't rebooted in a long time. >In any case, I had to reinstall the operating system but they saved all of the files so nothing was lost in the end, it's just a pain. Especially since my laptop stopped working for a few days and the server broke in the middle of me attending a convention. >Most of the downtime was spent moving files back and forth from my home and the server since there wasn't enough room on the server to extract the backup. (The backup archive was more than half the size of the server.) >~Seiatsu

>>6558 not him but I'm a bit new here. what is the general relationship with arisuchan? do you guys get along? are there cross posters? or do you guys not get along?

>>6969 Well, both boards probably would have co-existed peacefully, but Lainchan.jp redirected the URL to themselves, then the old owner used his ID to wipe our archives, and someone put Lainchan.jp's address on the cover of Lainzine 4, and by the time they changed their name to Arisuchan and tried to distance themselves from us everybody was just sick of their trolling bullsoykaf. I don't know what they expected, attacking and disrupting the board and then thinking everyone was going to migrate?

>>6969 a lot of people crosspost but it's kinda dead there and their layout is like kicking dead whales down the beach imo. there was some drama but sh it got old no one really care anymore

>>6969 I like the site. They did pretty soykafty things to appleman, but honestly he deserved some of it. This is meant to be a "hacker" site. Appleman got pwned because he was soykafty at security.

>>6985 Isn't that illegal? Kalyx sold the site and hosting to Appleman and in effect had no authorization to wipe the servers (or you could at least argue that it was an excess of violation). This is a felony under the CFAA.

>>6987 s/violation/authorization/g

>>6987 It is illegal, but it would be really fuarrrking lame if an imageboard with a heavy focus on computer security and cyberpunk-ness took legal action against someone for hacking them.

>>6989 This. Kalyx is a little bitch, don't get me wrong, but appleman had it coming.

https://ral.space/

A chan for indian anons indiachan.com

I'm doing a revival of yuchan (yugoslavia/balkan) as a sideproject. It's at yuchan.fun

>>6639 Why would Chad want to visit there? I only visited out of curiosity, not to participate, and it left me with even less hope for the planet than I had before. I can't imagine the effect it has on its daily flock of wallowers.

This is run by yousei from the lainchan irc https://fairy.life

>>6299 4chan.org

I've been going to one called mewch which is surprisingly active... on the /b/ board. they added an /a/ board a few months ago that's been struggling to maintain an audience. I try to make threads and reply as much as possible to keep people interested, but it seems kinda hopeless. I'd be cool if some of you could check it out.

>>7609 I wonder who could have written this post. Your problem is that you're just cloning existing boards. You need to give people a reason to visit your site instead of the many identical ones that dont need to go begging for users on other sites.

I also visit dreamchan, sometimes 4ch and ernstchan

http://latchan.ga , mainly since I'm a Latvian nationalist and it's fun to talk to other Latvians in a chan atmosphere.

>>6657 You are welcome.

lulz.net It is like oldschool (pre-2008) /b/ with occasional furry porn.

>>6608 I'd like to know their reasoning too, but something along the lines of wanting to feel superior and trying to reinforce their views on yet another part of the internet seems fairly likely

Finalchan of course

samachan.org reminds me a lot of old /a/

Indiachan

>>6653 I wish 4-ch was more active! It is so depressive to think that we'll never have an actual English alternative to 5ch.

what happened to sushigirl? And I don't mean all those dumb "news" posts full of bullsoykaf (they're kinda funny anyway) but the fact that it is pretty much r9k 2.0 nowadays. Where my sushies at?

>>7911 >I don't mean all those dumb "news" posts full of bullsoykaf (they're kinda funny anyway) What news posts? >but the fact that it is pretty much r9k 2.0 nowadays. That's not a fact sushi, there are I think only 3ish threads on sushichan that resemble threads on /r9k/. I've just glanced at those posts and they don't reek of hostility like /r9k/. >Where my sushies at? Some of the regulars are preoccupied at the moment but I'm pretty sure that if you join the irc on the weekend you'd find someone to talk to.

>>7800 wow, I had totally forgot about this one

>>7967 Who could forget Finalchan?

Nice little imageboard, https://wirechan.org

bronnen cracks me up

>>7981 i'd like to crack you up >>7980 recommend this place highly.

>>7981 Soykaf community

>>6536 damn, tohnochan looks really comfy and surprisingly active for a small altchan. Some threads are surprisingly high in quality wizchan is just r9k x10, the discourse is extremely bitter and toxic. I would'nt compare it to this place though, despite its shortcomings lainchan is still one of the best imageboard communities in my opinion.

>>6299 4chan

>>6532 is it just me or is replying to posts unsupported by your textboard?

>>6525 What is the alice fork? I went googling for it and found https://arisuchan.jp/%CE%BB/ which appears to be another lainchan fork. That it? Or is there more? I honestly wouldn't have expected multiple cyberpunk chans to be popping about. >>6560 Any tips for getting into the invitation only communities? I kind of want to up my game in that regard. >>6556 The amount of nazis posting on image boards exceeds the number of nazis I expect to exist by about an order of magnitude. I suspect someone is organizing a raid or something.

>>6299 Chakai is a pretty comfy one with a fairly unique model -- it only opens for posting once every (approximately) 12 hours. >>8042 >The amount of nazis posting on image boards exceeds the number of nazis I expect to exist by about an order of magnitude. I suspect someone is organizing a raid or something. >one of the most active boards on 4chan and 8chan is just a raid, amirite?

>>8044 It's not that ridiculous a statement if it's not actual nazis but 14 year trolls who think it's funny.

>>8044 >>8046 the answer is somewhere in the middle. non-ironic national socialists are definitely there and so are 14y/olds, but teenagers that are leaning into natsoc are surely making up a large portion

>>8046 At times it seems that lainchan is overrun by those idiots and the rest of the time they are mostly absent. I'm reasonably sure it's done by about two very bored people here. They don't even try to mask their posting style which is the big giveaway.

how weird, there was a link to a textboard but it is not there anymore, maybe I got the wrong thread

>>8066 are you referring to >>6532 or >>7473 (which is dead atm)?

>>8022 Doesn't look like there's any conventional way to mention posts. I've just been using >>

https://kohlchan.net/keller/

>>8091 Soykaf

>>8091 Man, so much of the chan-o-verse is dedicated to weeb stuff.

>>8096 It's the one theme that unites them/us all. All imageboards are ANIME WEBSITES. Trying to run one divorced from this is edgy normal user tryhard glitterboyry.

>>8097 Some of the boards on 4chan were very anti-weeb back around 10 years ago. Some of the general media themed ones were quite hostile to anything like that and were seen as refuges from the rest of 4chan. I always wished there would be just one site somewhere that was expressly, in the rules, not a haven for weebs. There's lots of reasons why imageboards are concentration camps for otaku but it would be cool to have one that wasnt.

>>8098 Anime still gets you derezzed at Operatorchan.

>>8096 and that's a bad thing?

>>8098 8channers stone you if you post "weeb soykaf". Even /a/ sometimes has trolls posting that "opinion discarded" picture. I don't really see the appeal or why you would want an imageboard like that. They are always the opposite of comfy.

>>6299 There's this one obscure site called 4chan

>>8100 No, but I wonder why someone would make an alt chan just to post the same anime pics they are posting to 4chan.

>>8104 What are you talking about? Aside from the Japanese boards, 4chan has been actively fighting to get rid of anime posters, and what are they left with now? Off-topic brewing soykaf, /r9k/ greentext stories, pepe the frog and distorted feels guy's, ect. I really don't get it. You see board like /tv/ filled with people who even literally admit it themselves that they don't even watch television shows, they're only there for the "memes". Why did so many boards go down this path? Like do people actually think this is fun? Was this really an improvement? All I'm saying is, this is probably the reason why every alt-chan tries it's hardest to stay close to anime and Japanese culture.

a/jp alt-chans are afflicted by the same brewing soykaf and idiocy as their 4chan originals, and they are all the same. Even Tohno-chan which advertises itself as being for "true otaku" is dominated by the usual "all anime is soykaf now, what went wrong" garbage from people who have seen five anime.

>>8101 > They are always the opposite of comfy. ...if you're a weeb yourself, probably.

>>8118 So what if I am one?

>>8124 The point that keeps going over your head is that there are already a billion anime themed imageboards so why should you object if there was ONE that wasn't overrun with that stuff, or even discouraged it? Go post on one of the other countless boards already dedicated to that. There is nothing about the text and image posting format that dictates it must be a haven for westerners obsessed with Japanese culture, just because it usually is.

>>8125 >Go post on one of the other countless boards already dedicated to that. I already do that. When did I imply I go to places like 8chan's /b/ board? All I said was that I don't see the appeal in places like that. or why anyone would find them fun, but I guess that's just me.

/litpat/ on 8ch

>>6299 sushigirl is good. dreamch doesnt even work.

>>6523 That board actually looks pretty good, but why does it ask me to Register? Do I have to name fig?

>>8105 Imageboards became dank memesites that people hear about on fox news and go to to see where all the fun they've been fed from websites mirroring its content is. They barge in, remember the cool memecaps they saw on funnyjunk, try to ruffle the place with some low quality post and hope something they can cap it for upvotes on reddit. Also you have to remember we have world stage players dedicated to astroturfing on the internet as a whole, and 4chan is a big meaty target that however little resists them whereas other places are passive to being influenced by posters specifically crafting posts for ulterior motives. Subversion of a population in the present time is through the internet and more than ever before an increasingly small group of people can have an increasingly big influence. In 1918 someone with such an objective had to build a spy network with people sharing their ideal, build contacts, spread propaganda, all that stereotypical spy stuff. In 2018 a single person can get the whole proccess going alone, and the damage a group can do is even bigger.

2ch aka 5ch actually has English boards that can be used by non japs http://maguro.2ch.net/anime8/ http://maguro.2ch.net/book8/ http://maguro.2ch.net/carcom8/ http://maguro.2ch.net/comp8/ http://maguro.2ch.net/food8/ http://maguro.2ch.net/games8/ http://maguro.2ch.net/img8/ http://maguro.2ch.net/lang8/ http://maguro.2ch.net/lounge8/ http://maguro.2ch.net/music8/ http://maguro.2ch.net/newnew8/ http://maguro.2ch.net/newpol8/ http://maguro.2ch.net/prog8/ http://maguro.2ch.net/sci8/ http://maguro.2ch.net/sjis8/ http://maguro.2ch.net/sports8/ http://maguro.2ch.net/tech8/ http://maguro.2ch.net/tele8/ http://maguro.2ch.net/vip8/

>>8346 the site doesn't load on my testbrowser with just ublock installed and no elements were blocked can anyone confirm his links work or not?

>>8408 It works just fine for me... Maybe try changing the 2 to a 5 in the url.

>>8431 The redirect works, but then it stops loading

>>8433 Have you tried using a different web browser?

>>8434 >http://maguro.2ch.net/anime8/ Oh soykaf, now an error popped up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_451 I live in a fuarrrking facist country by now. Censoring imageboards.. for real

>>8435 Then try using a vpn or a proxy. There's a free one you can get on the chromestore called ultrasutf.

>>8436 *ultrasurf

>>8436 I appreciate it, but it is not as important. I'm seeing this error the first time. Given though that it is a HTTP response it might be the decision of the server owner himself. Even though my country is facist, it is not as bad yet here as in the UK.

>>8438 Huh, I also get 451. I'm almost certain my government is not blocking the site. I guess the admin is just geofiltering certain countries.

>>8439 I got the second 451 today on a different website answering science questions. I'm sure it is scared sysadmins who don't want to deal with the new EU privacy law and just block all their European users. Weak move when you can just warn them about cookies and tracking.

>>6327 Einchan domain down einchan@107.160.8.9 pass: ein

>>6516 ! Unable to connect Didn't get a chance to check it out, is it gone now?

>>8462 >Is it gone now? Yes. You can find some of the diaspora on ernstchan.xyz (same design) and kohlchan.net.

Is einchan dead? I keep getting a failure in host name resolution.

>>8553 >>8460 An update from the admin: >Einchan's domain came from freedns.afraid.org, which is a free service. >It looks like freedns.afraid.org has gone down. This is obviously out of my hands, and it doesn't seem like there's any way to get the domain back. >Given how slow EinChan is these days, I was considering just letting it die. >However, to my surprise (and joy), it seems some people are still posting even without a URL. >If people still care, I'll do what I can to get EinChan back up, but it'll have to be on a new domain. >I'm pretty broke right now, if anyone would like to donate a domain it'd be very welcome. >I think we need to think about the long term future of the chan too - at one point it seemed like we were getting a few posts each day, now we're lucky to have a few per month. >I don't mind just leaving it running, but I'd much prefer if this place was full of life. >When we get a new domain, it could be a chance at a relaunch. What would you like to see from your ideal SSH-based community? What would keep you coming back? >What's missing or broken right now? What would inspire you to post more? How do we grow the community without reducing quality? >I know these are hard questions, but if you value EinChan I'd like you to feel a sense of ownership for it too. This isn't just my project, it's the community that makes it work. >It's your chan, get involved!"

>>8559 >>8553 Einchan is back! it's now `ssh einchan@ein.blue`

I found a new and comfy chan! spacechan.xyz

>>8620 nice

Just found a new one called https://perfectchan.org Don't bother them too much.

>>8559 Do you have the admin's email? I would like to ask him some questions.

>>8714 >4. Do not spoonfeed injokes or culture with new users. Carry this notion onto lazy "sauce pls" glitterboys. Direct them to /r/equest or provide tools they can use to help themselves. Ex. "Saucenao", "Yandex", etc. >5. Do not archive anything related to Perfectchan including it's history or jokes This is kind of sad.

>>8718 nah it seems perfect

>>8718 Culture needs to be passed onzo others through social interaction otherwise there will be hipsters who will read a page on knowyourmeme or archive page and think they are a part of the group and try to subvert it or even water down the essence of culture. It's not sad. It is quite logical actually.

>>8714 This site reeks of 13 year old. Barely any organization, default vichan, and raids and "how 2 go deeper in deep web???" threads on the first page.

>>8630 Seems pretty comfy

>>8044 Mind providing a link, looking up chakaichan brings up nothing.

>>8833 No

Does anyone remember nuclear ib? A couple of years ago the site went down for a few days then there was nothing but a glowing mango and then there was nothing. That site was a lot of fun and I still miss it.

Puertochan recently came back, but it's pretty inactive still. Probably not useful for many here but for documentation's sake and for those curious: https://puertochan.net/

>>9271 Eyyyy cabrrrrrrrron! I didn't know there were other puertorricans in here.

>>9272 oh soykaf what up

>>9272 We are always everywhere...watching...waiting.

Here's a list I found somewhere: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1t10VI-sccy1CfAeMZHwmCS_7agIHFo_B5ipMjzsMtTg/edit?usp=sharing

https://8ch.net/randamu/index.html

>>9278 outdated af

>>9272 >>9273 this chan seems comfy, mind if I hang?

>>9283 Sure thing, anyone's welcome!

https://lewd.sx/ Not a chan, but comfy af. A lovely little forum that started out as an anime board and slowly grew into a place where people hang out and talk about their lives. It's relatively-active compared to most places in this thread, but could use some new blood.

>>6299 mewch.net is pretty fuarrrking comfy to be honest

55chan.org

>>9760 Arrombado.

>>9698 Is this the site that used to be linked up the top but left with Arisu-chan?

>>9698 You forgot to mention that the owner of that place is a massive cunt who changed his affiliation link with lainchan.org to .jp just so he can get a spot as a mod on .jp. Funnily enough later down the road he got kicked out. Also lewd.sx is filled wtih pretty average people, the main theme of the site is anime, manga and hentai/ecchi, the main boards/forums/whatever they're called that get attention are the anime/manga ones and "the lounge" a.k.a. nonfat-soykaf drinker board/forum. -So discussion wise nothing of value can be found there. Like I've said earlier people on there are pretty average or "normal people" (whatever that means nowadays) but some of them are really nice however they don't really care about some of the "niche" interests that an average lainon would care about. Also another thing that I found annoying during my short stay there were the drama queens from "I'm leaving threads", I'm not sure who was worse, people who kept making those threads or people who were writing essays in those threads calling OPs of those threads attention whores. Overall I wouldn't recommend this place to anyone, if you want a much better alternative in an imageboard format I'd highly recommend sushichan which is located at sushigirl.us >>9759 There's nothing "comfy" about mewch, it's a 8chan ripoff that uses lynxchan instead of vichan, also people there obsess over random attention seeking girls. The only reason they have a userbase is because they keep spamming boards on 8chan and other imageboards with their stupid propaganda. If the admin actually cared enough about the imageboard he would've bought a couple of ads on 4chan/8chan/420chan instead of sending out his minions to spam other places. So no, mewch isn't comfy. >>9789 Indeed.

>>9790 >people there obsess over random attention seeking girls you haven't visited in a long time fren, now we only obsess over akari, all the beta 3dpd orbiters have migrated to /wai/, their containment board >If the admin actually cared enough about the imageboard he would've bought a couple of ads on 4chan/8chan/420chan he did

>>9791 also >8chan ripoff our board culture is extremely different from the board culture of 8chan and people hate 8chan new users

>>9790 I've been there a few dozen times over the last year or so and I've thought of making an account but they all seem just so gay. Too much whining, and it looks pretty tight knit; which is a good thing, but if you want to say something in the spirit of helping or talking to someone it gives me the impression you'd get flamed or derezzed off the site. So you put off making an account more and more, thus never getting any posts, no presence, thus no way to give input.

It's not really an "alt-chan" but if anyone's interested this is the chinese 2ch --> http://adnmb1.com From how I understand it, it has more of a board cultural focus on crossdressing than other chans while still having many hobby boards ala fourchan. But posting is a pain since you need a cookie or to register with the site because it's behind the great firewall. It's pretty active regardless

I miss 0ch.net. ;(

>>9805 There's a 0chan on zeronet. Though I'd be careful with it, considering that zeronet is full of CP and that the p2p system supposedly has some potential vulnerabilities where people can see some of your files. Don't quote me on that though.

>>9805 Do you mean the russian imageboard, the zeronet board or the anarchist imageboard that was run by nyx?

>>9806 zeronet is not anonymous nor secure, convince me otherwise

>>9810 noone is going to convince you because its not and only retards think it is

>>9824 >neurosuggesting

>>6299 hurrichan

neet.moe

I like the concept of this thread. It's rather difficult to find a genuinely comfy imageboard on the basis that everyone seems to take things so seriously nowadays. You can spend barely a minute in most actually active sites before you will see people frothing with internet rage and arguing about completely off topic politics or out of site drama. Even /b/ at its height of flooding other boards with edgy 13 year olds was preferable to this. The few boards that don't fall to this fate are normally completely dead or closed off. On a more positive note, I can confirm that Operatorchan and Sushichan (particularly the latter) are fairly comfy and highly slow. I recommend both. As far as comf + activity goes, though, this is about the best you'll get.

>>9828 A key element of the atmosphere on imageboards used to be humour. It is nearly completely absent now and that's sad. This site suffers from it as much as any I'm afraid.

Going down this rabbit hole is always interesting. It's like walking through virtual ruins or stepping into the past. Sad how hard it is to find any active boards that aren't 4chan though.

>>9829 I think comfy-ness might have to be relative in this case. I find this site more comfy than other sites due to the quality of conversation in most of the threads I get involved in. This is as opposed to more mainstream sites where things quickly devolve into online screaming. It's possible that instead of finding a "comfy" site, it's better to search out a "relatively comfy" site, which this site seems to be for me.

>>9842 I kind of prefer the rarity. If there wasn't any rarity, it would mean this type of site is popular in the mainstream, which can bring all sorts of problems with it.

>>9842 word. I'm always looking for more variety in the chan space. It's a bit sad when you see the same boards and the same discussions everywhere.

>>9850 I have never understood that. There were niche chans that formed around a unique theme instead of the same categories as 4/7chan but few stood the test of time. At least 7chan had a reason for duplicating 4's template; they were pissed at the moderation policies of 4chan and wanted to focus on what was in their mind, quality of posts rather than a 24 hour tornado of feces. Then 100 irrelevant chans popped up following the same format. >>9843 Understood, though there is still more pointless screaming here than I care for. I feel like no one can take a joke anymore. I don't mean political correctness or SJWs only, I mean no one seems to be able to have a serious conversation with a bit of fun on the side, and maybe some playful sniping. This isn't just about lainchan now though, the whole goddamn internet suffers from it.

Krautchan (from the isoperspective of /int/) was a very comfy place. You had all the fun of cultural exchange together with a unique eastern european touch and room for more serious discussion without the anti-intellectualism cross-contamination from fouchan /powl/. In retrospect im happy that the site died, it wont meet the same fate as fouchan did.

>>9807 The anarchist one.

>>9856 similar place https://kohlchan.net/int/

7chan and 420chan were and still are the best English imageboards on the internet. 4chan turned into soykaf years ago and 8gag was literally never good. The one the OP posted, sushigirl looks pretty cool. I might need to do some further investigation.

>>9861 Why didn't they copy the kc catalog ?

>>9876 Because oldkc was held together with duct tape

3chan.io

>>9945 Finally a place to talk about politics on the Internet.

>>9945 the layout is kinda weird (forced catalog) but I can get used to it. the anons there seem pretty nice as of now.

>>9859 I miss it too. I really liked 0chan's aesthetics of anarchism, occultism and cyberpunk.

>>9945 already ded?

>>9280 Ugh, 8ch is filled with literal Nazis.. :-/

>>6599 > you get a community of people who all think they're superior to one another, and that's never much good for discussion >all chans seem to meet this fate eventually feels bad man but pretty accurate unless the board attracts less than 1 or 2 new users a year. even then it's just a insider trade >>6299 kinda use ernst and bronnen from time to time for general discussion and memes respectively and follow wherever a select few communities decide to bunker up

>8ch is filled with literal nazis Once, now its just idiots and boomers. So more between Tea Party and NazBol. Plus the qfa ggotry is getting steadily worse. If there was ever more in need of a reenactment of The Night of The Long Knives its 8ch. They don't even know what they're going on about anymore.

https://bus-stop.tk/ a cool imageborad where all posts only stay on the site for a day

>>9982 from what that picture implies it's no big loss

on 8chan /film/ is alright >>6568 there's tinychan too, which is slightly better than goatfinger imo. https://dis.tinychan.org/recent.html >>8833 https://chakai.org/tea/ >>8837 i wouldn't have posted it if it weren't for you

>>6564 idk but i have some images like that see:

>>10068 the site owner does not like people sharing that link.

I found this great new altchan called 4channel

>>10163 lol

RIP Mewch

>>9806 > the p2p system In what way does zeronet use a p2p system?

http://futatsu.org

>>10420 hmmm this is definitely not like anything I've seen b4. its like trying 2 make an IB with the aesthetics of a social network.

>>10390 ngl, they sh illed it so much Im glad it's dead>>10390

>>10139 Not my problem, he shouldn't have made a public website if he didn't want people to use it. Blame the previous guy who could have avoided posting instead of acting like a cunt.

>>10410 In the same way as torrents do.

>>8437 do NOT use ultrasurf

https://3chan.co/

>>11195 No

I was at sushigirl.us before, but now it says "ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED". Is it down?

>>12754 It's currently working for me. Perhaps you should ask Seisatsu about it on their IRC if you're unable to connect.

My personal favorite is 22chan.org

>>12754 I think it was down last night, but it seems to be back up now.

>>6299 >disk being inserted into drive backwards This is how the world ends.

>>12795 Wondered if anyone noticed that. No hentai 4 u

>>12796 18TB of hentai on arrays. No shortage here, bro.

Since nobody has mentioned it I think I might bring it up. Wired-7.org is a similar image board to lainchan but it's mostly in spanish.

poorchan.ga

>>8103 It's only really useful as a news aggregator these days. No point in paying to soykafpost.

4chan

>>9945 Already down like every retarded chan like this. 14yo don't have enough money to pay hosting costs lol.

I browse a lot of ylilauta

>>13563 Kind of a lot of extreme ideas on their politics board when it comes to segregating people for arbitrary reasons and keeping them suppressed.

I used to browse 8ch's /cyber/. I miss it.

>>9947 >>10065 >>12208 >>13561 >being this mad Chill, dude.

>>13569 eh no need to be mad, just is like kicking dead whales down the beach

>>13569 Oh not mad dude, it's just funny to me to see this kind of people making websites because their cancerous meeting place was down for like 1 month. What is even funnier to me is they are so cliché :') -Most of them are kids without enough money to pay a super cheap VPS -Or just 50yo boomers who don't know soykaf about the chan culture and discovered 8chan on fox news. (If you don't believe me, just watch the replies to the 8chan twitter :'D)

For me Lainchan is the only one. This feels sort of like the Goldilocks zone, where 4Chan is too overbearing and on the smaller ones discussion happens at a snail's pace. I would like to start my own but I can't really be fuarrrked to learn php to branch off of the Vichan or Lainchan code lol

>>13887 Same, this one keeps it chill enough and is not so anime focused, so you feel you can talk about most topics and get at least a small discussion out of it. 4chan is good for the odd event but long ago it became more about the memes which I can't care less about, the others are indeed either way too slow, way too anime (I haven't watched in a while) or way too politics (even twitter is a lot better for this topic)

found this board the other day: https://www.ratwires.space it's definitely not comfy. and the content is like kicking dead whales down the beach. no images either. but there is something kind of intriguing about it. (found it through https://stumblingon.com which is also worth a look)

>>13568 This...

>>13568 >>13897 is there an archive of 8chan somewhere? i found some /cyber/ stuff on archive.is, but it's old. i'm getting back into image boards after years of not paying attention to them and i missed out on the whole 8chan thing :[

>>13898 You didn't miss much.

>>13898 >missed out on the whole 8chan thing Eugh, not for long. 8ch is spreading to all the other cozy chans like lice. Filthy refugees.

>>13584 And why are you so salty about it? Jesus, let people be free.

>>13913 Grow up. Nobody misses that den of redditors, and for good reason. Nor would anyone miss you.

>>13913 Free to be laughted at, too.

>>13887 I’ll take a snails pace website with sincerity than be like 4chan that’s fast and infested with low effort brewing soykaf.

>>13921 Precisely—these 8ch assholes think everything is oppression, including when other people plain don't like them. And justifiably so. You people are the ones who made nearly every imageboard unbearably tedious over the past several years. I'm salty about it. I fuarrrking hate having to see these dumb debate club kids and oxy-addled boomers everywhere.

>>13927 Have you checked in on spacechan since 8 tanked? It's insane.

>>13927 8chan had no culture. The ability to make your own boards fragmented it tremendously.

>>13929 It never shed its slacktivist roots, something far removed from any other imageboard.

>>13929 Yes. It was just a giant insider trade. Or more like multiple tiny circlesjerk

>>13918 >nobody misses that den of redditors Some people miss it. Your opinion isn't the only one in the world, pal. >nor would anyone miss you See how impactful it was? You're all aggressive there because of it. >>13921 Indeed. >>13931 Just like a dystopian cyberpunk city, right? I don't get why you're all so mad about 8chan here. It sure was an interesting cyberplace, to say the least.

>>13934 Some people should go back.

>>13889 >Became more about the memes Exactly. Sometimes I actually find myself exhausted browsing 4chan, weirdly enough >>13924 Suppose that makes sense, but sincerity with a slightly faster pace wouldn't hurt. That's why I like it here.

>>13934 If 8chan was a 'cyberplace' then 9Gag is a fuarrrking cyberpalace lol. (And we all know 9gag was cancer)

I just relaunched my file booru as an imageboard https://heyuri.cf/

yakui.moe best chan for best maid i miss 8ch's /hikki/

I owned a chan more than 10 years ago and I don't know why but I feel like making a new one in the near future. But I don't know if it's worth the effort in 2019. Hell, almost 2020. Most chans I've known are dead. Only a few survived it seems. Even less aren't filled with soykafposts. I don't want to make a copie of 4chan. But I don't know what new things the userbase of imageboards want to see. We almost already have a chan for everything but a few niche interests that are not big enough to make a viable website. What do you think lainons?

>>14164 >I owned a chan more than 10 years ago and I don't know why but I feel like making a new one in the near future. What was its name? >I don't want to make a copie of 4chan. But I don't know what new things the userbase of imageboards want to see. Instead of focusing on making another imageboard, why not focus on trying to make this one better?

>>14164 It's the user base you need. People aren't lining up to post on chan websites anymore because of the cartoon character loud hate speech contingent that shows up and drowns out the conversation on any site that gets popular. You just can't get big enough to attract a rich and diverse user base without a dozen moderators, spam filters, etc.

>>14167 I don't even want to write the name here. We created the chan during the time everyone derezzed /i/ boards so we jumped on the occasion at the time. Looking back It wasn't fun at all nor a good idea. So yeah, I don't want to make the same mistake and only attract skids and trolls. I wanted to create one because I don't feel at home on other chans (lainchan included). I was thinking about making a place where it's forbidden to talk about politics in general (specially the right vs left crap) and forbidden to troll or be a soykafhead. Idk if it's even possible. I was the admin of a few forums too so I was thinking about making some sort of anonymous forum allowing people to post as guests only instead of a chan to avoid the "oh it's a chan! that mean I can soykafpost/troll here" mentality. >>14170 I don't want it to be a popular website. I just want to have a few active users who can post without insulting everyone and without the website feeling dead. >You just can't get big enough to attract a rich and diverse user base without a dozen moderators, spam filters, etc. I have experience in avoiding spam, I was the owner of a few forums. Some were popular enough to get spammed on a daily basis so I'm not worrying too much about that.

>>14170 Never make a politics board. It only attracts nonfat-soykaf drinkers, trolls, normal users, and moral users.

>>14173 Yeah, that's why I want to ban politics from the site if I make it :) It's seems like you can't have anything 'anonymous' today without heavy moderation to keep the problems at bay. I don't want the stress of having my hosting provider call me every two weeks.

>>14174 >It's seems like you can't have anything 'anonymous' today without heavy moderation to keep the problems at bay You can't have any internet community without a. heavy moderation or b. a fuсkstorm of garbage posts and weird extremist posers/sometimes not so much posers but instead real lunatics. That's always been the case. The Turner Diaries crowd has been infesting the internet since the eighties; they've always been very involved. It's only lately that people have started to conflate internet comments with "speech" and demanded uncensored, un-moderated forums. Probably because the internet has become by far our dominant mode of communication now. Which doesn't work very well at all.

>>14179 The demand for uncensored sites is driven by the constantly expanding censorship that only allows for specific things to be said.

>>14183 I’ve noticed on websites that claim to support free speech and non censorship are very ban happy with anyone who has a thought independent from the group think. It’s every single time.

>>14179 My question is: Can a chan/anonymous forum survive today with the same heavy moderation? >>14183 >>14184 I'm with 14184 on this one: Everyone want free speech on privately owned websites like if it's a right yet they are the first to spam said website with soykafposts and edgy ideas. If you try to talk with them they will throw "stfu leftist/rightist" at your face and whine about being censored/oppressed. And most "free speech" platforms aren't really for freedom of speech; they just want to justify the dominant edgy ideas of the websites they own and create a circle-jerk.

>>14174 There was this singer who made an imageboard on his site, free for all. It's a spam graveyard. That nonsensical free speech utopia is only pushed out by people who aren't prone to do much thinking, their garbage being derezzed because it is independent from the group think or whatever is a comfy excuse over admitting that it is in fact garbage that deserves to be derezzed.

>>14173 So, it attracts...people? >>14186 The reason people push for a 'free speech utopia' is because their thinking and discussion tends to be on the socially unacceptable side of things. They believe that a 'free speech utopia' is the solution to their problem. I personally believe they are wrong, not because of your bullshit dehumanization but rather because group think is all but required for a community. For example, you go to an lgbt location to discuss lgbt things, whatever those things may be. The discussions are to be within a specific lane, and inside that lane there can be divergence of thought and opinion, but anything outside of that lane is not going to be acceptable to the group -- They came there to discuss lgbt things, not why lgbt things shouldn't be a thing. So, those people who go against the grain will often be derezzed. If you want to go to a place to talk about those of a certain hebrew faith or how lgbt doesn't fit in with your political agenda, you're going to have to go elsewhere. Those places do exist. The big question is --- Is this all entirely group think? I don't think people in the group can accept the idea that they are just hanging out with likeminded people and pushing out those who aren't. So, lie to yourself all you want. You likely will even believe it. It's protective to do so. But an outside will know the truth about your group, just as you may know the truth about their group. To comment on your sentiment of these people who "aren't prone to do mucht thinking" -- That type of commentary would be considered toxic. Although, I suppose if you attack people outside of the lane, you're going to be fine.... Or if you're in a 'free speech utopia'. But if you were in a place with heavy rules, that actually covered what it was supposed to.... You're going to call those mods nazis/commies/jews/etc. Tl;dr: You're only a fool because you think one group thinks and your group doesn't --- Groups don't think, people often don't think, and automatic mode is the default setting for most people who don't spend every waking minute of their life in a constant state of embarassment, discomfort, suffering, and paranoia.

>>14187 >So, it attracts...people? People that you don't want to have on your website, people that will make the quality drop like a rock, people that made 4chan from an anime website for geeks and weirdos to a place for people who never belonged there making the original population a minority.

>>14191 Goddamn, that image sure sums it up doesn't it?

>>14187 The problem is you think people have to respect your opinion, particularly if they are in a place where they support each other instead of trying to argue about what they believe in (yes, they deliberately push out those who under this context, can only output garbage) What happens in this case is you do some thinking, and go to other places when your views aren't considered garbage so you don't get derezzed. This is what most of these "controversial" internet celebs do, they only moan about free speech because so their simpleton audience can make noise about it and give them more relevance, a simple marketing trick. So yes, it comes down to just doing more thinking and rising above comfy but lame excuses.

>>14191 I'm still mad at /r9k/ for ruining "normal user" with their babyspeak whimpering.

>>14191 (I'm the one asking if it's worth it to make a new chan/forum) Wow I've never seen this screenshot before. I agree 100% with it except the chanology part. For me, chanology was the beginning of the end of the fun 4chan era but also the best one. It wasn't even really IRL/politics back then: It was just internet guys using annoying techniques to fuarrrk with the dumbest cult on earth. Sure it was weird seeing people on the street wearing V masks and writing "free candy" on their van, but at the same time the online part of this era was my favorite: Everyone was together in this 'fight', it wasn't even a real political fight, just extreme trolling a cult who prey on weak people. I don't recall ever seeing anyone on 4chan being against Chanology at the time. It wasn't like the rest of the IRL soykaf, It was still fun (I think). But it was also the begging of the end as medias started talking about us. Then, summer never ended. >>14187 >So, it attracts...people? So, here's the thing: I don't want to just attract people. I want to attract 'good' users, not trolls or people who think chans are just for writing lies and . If my objective was to make a big website I'll just allow porn and politics and let everyone yell at each other: But I don't want yet another soykafty 4chan clone :/

>>14200 Just wanted to echo what some others have said - for this hypothetical new chan it's probably best to ban the bs that attracts the lowest common denominator to begin with. Memes, politics, porn. Yeah, those three things can be entertaining and more in the right contexts but when people are left to their own devices soykaf gets out of hand. I go back and forth about whether politics should be allowed because some interesting discussion can be had regarding theory etc. but I feel like it's not worth the risk/fine-toothed-comb moderation headache. The online forums I still frequent today, while not perfect, succeed because those three things are not allowed in most cases.

>>14201 I think it's mainly just the format. The topic doesn't really matter much, after a certain point it reaches some sort of critical mass, as the format incentivizes controversy(whatever gets replies steers the discussion, and you have a lot more lurkers ready to pounce than active posters in any one discussion) and just general disagreeableness, it doesn't scale and after a point moderation just cannot keep up. That said, some topics give a much lower breaking point, attracting the slacktivists that'll degenerate any form of discussion into factionalist soykafflinging, convincing themselves their spam is a public service and anyone who doesn't play along with their gay little RP that hammering away at their keyboard in a rage makes them a modern revolutionary is The Enemy. But with smartphones and social media, that's just the internet. You're at best choosing if you want them to be ninety percent of the volume, or a hundred.

>>14205 Maybe step 1 should be a platform completely incompatible with mobile devices.

But what if i like brewing soykaf? 4dummies is even soykaf at that, it's never fun and often reaches political topics

>>14207 Yeah, I think you'd have to. Problem is, that doesn't actually fix the core issue, it only mitigates it somewhat. Unless your community is completely autistic and has no interaction with the rest of the internet, it is going to be affected by them. You can go into any online game right now, that's unplayable on a phone, and you won't be able to interact with a group of people for even one minute without being reminded of its pervasive influence. You simply can't have a majority of a community's interaction(not solely with each other, or through your channel) be dominated by one group of people(could be Skub-users for all we care) all acting in the same way, and come out unaffected. Not on an individual level, and sure as hell not on a group-level. Groups are chaotic, and when you have a solid locus like that always pulling in the same direction, without some VERY strong endogenous factors, it is going to dictate the discourse and it doesn't matter much if it can do that directly or has to do that indirectly. This is just simply how the internet is now. You can't just excise one tumor, it has metastasized.

>>14185 >Everyone want free speech on privately owned websites like if it's a right yet they are the first to spam said website with soykafposts and edgy ideas. And "brewing soykaf" and "edgy ideas" is of course defined as anything not conforming to current leftist dogma. >If you try to talk with them they will throw "stfu leftist/rightist" at your face and whine about being censored/oppressed. Because you are leftists and because they are being censored. And when have you tried talking to anyone? Don't make me laugh. >>14187 >For example, you go to an lgbt location to discuss lgbt things, whatever those things may be. Most places on the internet are now "lgbt locations" whether or not they specifically have anything to do with that topic. twitter for example.

>>14210 Word, make sense. You've definitely thought about this one harder than I have. Just throwing out thoughts as they come. This is a topic I've only started loosely thinking about in the past year or so. I find it to be a fascinating issue to wonder about but I don't really know anyone IRL that is truly aware of the shift that happened and its implications on discourse. In fact this is probably the only place I frequent online where I've seen any real discussion about it at all.

>>14209 When a lot of people start to do something, it turns into an art and requires effort to get the desired returns, brewing soykaf is not an exception. In other words, if your attempts to brew soykaf end up in something you don't want like political posts you're doing it wrong

>>14212 I didn't mean to browbeat you, I do agree, I'm mostly just venting something that's been on my mind ever since my pile of regex filters from trying to endure 4chon started approaching quadruple digits. Back to the ranting, I think the best example is all this talk about(please bear with me) trannies lately. You often have threads, not so much here, thankfully, spontaneously get derailed to talk of them. It gets pretty funky when you look at the specifics, because the people bringing it up don't really care. They don't care about the topic, often very vocally so, and in fact that seems to be their only consistent stance on the issue. That it gets undue attention. That it doesn't really matter, they're sick of hearing about it, and they just don't care. The only reason they give a damn is because others do. That is the issue, to them, that someone does. And the response to them bringing it up is usually more of the same, only obviously a much less vocal and more apathetic version of it, directed at them for bringing it up. And they get into a shouting match about it, and now that is the thread. So you've got a thread, and it doesn't have any of them in it. It has absolutely nothing to do with them. You've the one side, who doesn't give a damn about it, and you've the other, who couldn't be paid to give a damn. And now that's all the thread is, a shouting match on an issue that has nothing to do with the thread or anyone in it, an issue neither side cares about, about how much they do not care about it. We all know memes spread, but I think that's a perfect example of just how fuarrrking inane it can get. It's several degrees removed, it's absolutely fuarrrking ludicrous, and completely pointless, but that's how strongly the web is connected. That's how big the effect is, when any small number of users are able to break through the chaos that is group dynamics, and any active measures to try to rein it in is going to be like trying to swim upstream. That's still only with an extremely dumb and very specific example, and it'll die down in time. But if you look at a more abstract form, like the mode of thought of someone who uses his smartphone all day, browses social media etc, and has since childhood, then I think we're just kind of screwed. He's going to be an unrepentant and completely self-unaware normal user, since he's so used to having his face and full name attached to his posts he might as well be saying it in person, and he's going to act like his opinion matters. At most, getting to post anonymously will make a site the place he goes to say the Nigger-word. At most. He's not going to understand the decades of internet culture, or the continuous social evolution that has taken part within it due to anonymity, or any other factor. It's like trying to teach a kid to read by pelting him with the entire western canon in the crib. He's going to constantly up- and down-vote posts, spamming his 'based' and his 'cringe'. That sits a lot deeper, is a lot harder to address, is a lot more general and pervasive, and spy-phones are bound to stick around a lot longer than whatever is the political hot topic of the month, and I just don't see any way of addressing that en masse that that doesn't make pissing into the wind look clever.

>>14216 Well said, really. You're putting much of what are vague feelings and uncollected thoughts in my mind into words and it's helpful. And the bit about dealing with what is a rapidly growing population of younger individuals growing up with their mind-smartphone complex from day one, largely lacking any sort of context or sense of what led to what is today...it all does seem rather hopeless. I'm always hesitant to make broad statements about generational differences and I like to keep in mind that for any given group there is a bell-curve...but man, I don't know about this. As you say, unrepentant, self-unaware, and also born into the practice of speaking purely in sound-bites and memes, unwilling to be moderate on any topic, unwilling to investigate (let alone allow) alternative/opposing perspectives... well, I'm hoping the pendulum will swing the other way because it's hard to stomach it all otherwise.

>>14191 Well placed image. >>14189 >The problem is you think people have to respect your opinion You're injecting that. I never said that, nor have I implied it. If I've implied anything, it is that people don't often respect differing opinions. I'd go so far to say, the more open minded often respect opinions that have no impact on their own. >>14200 >I want to attract 'good' users I understand what you mean. I took what you had previously stated as a strange broad brush that just indicates everyone. Thank you for the elaboration. @14189 At least you're trying to comprehend what you've read. I can give you that much. It's still dehumanizing, especially when you feel justified in your thinking. I'm not saying anything that is incorrect.

What's the best way to deal with off-topic brewing soykaf? Just ignoring memes, hate speech, etc doesn't really seem to be sufficient, because it makes it seem acceptable or the status quo, but calling them out is liable to derail the thread.

>>14179 >That's always been the case It hasn't. Usenet was very easy to navigate and quite functional in misc and k12 and even moderated alt groups.

>>14200 I was in the Ft. Harrison group in Clearwater. You should hear it...every single chan website simultaneously trying to take credit for and deny responsibility for chanology. Meanwhile we had hundreds of people who were just there because it was a nice day and they heard about it on Skype. It's so easy to rewrite history when there are only a few thousand regular posters left in the world posting on these sites authentically. Any site that sticks its head up by becoming popular gets it chopped off.

>>14237 Hey I'm 14200 It's nice to see people who were already around during chanology Did we all ended up here on lainchan or what? :)

>>14211 >>14211 I wish the internet were leftist... we're the ones who are actually censored

>>6327 whisperchan is telling me to resize my terminal and reconnect. I can't resize because i'm on f-ing freebsd. =(

>>14060 yakui good taste yui better taste

>>14249 This is a stunning example of what kind of pathological liars leftists are. They run the internet and they decide what is and isn't acceptable... but they're the ones who are being censored.

>>14249 Next time be carefull of what friends you make lainon ;)

>>14240 I think a lot of people realized a split second after chanology went off that it was a mistake. The website has been nothing but, "hey guys, why don't we mobilize against this convenient political target of the right wing" ever since. Once you can get thousands of people to do something, people try to control it, rewrite its history, and shape it into something none of the original people want to participate in. That's essentially chan culture now. Why did like-minded folks come here? For me it's because I still believe in this format and if you keep the right wingers off the website, nobody gets murdered for the Americans.

>>14268 I think Lain was talking about social media giants who censor users for being racist on their sites, which somehow translates to them controlling the whole internet.

>>14269 Not really No matter how much charity you give them they truly believe the right has no power and it is them against the world dominated by the left. But to be fair to them you can see that kind of attitude with retards from every single alignment, the only prerequisite here is being a retard

....yep, and the last bunch of replies here pretty much sum up why the Internet is garbage. Left or right, doesn’t matter. All equally fuarrrking annoying.

>>6299 I personaly use nanoboard, even if it is super dead.

>>14426 Link?

>>14258 Corpprations run the interned, baka anon. They just think that leftism is more marketable. >>14428 https://github.com/nanoboard/nanoboard/releases