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Ragusea is an idiot, though and I arrived at that conclusion without any help from 4ch.
Why? He seems better than the average foodtuber.
You're talking to a well known troll, sadly
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this might be conspirational thinking, but i don't think it's an accident that the site came out like this. yes, there's moderation, but the moderators are explicitly told to go easy on moderating racism[1]. it feels like once that kind of stuff isn't punished, it starts to snowball a change in the attitudes of the site as a whole. that's not to say stringent moderation doesn't make a site less welcoming, though. it'…
>but the moderators are explicitly told to go easy on moderating racism[ What would be gained if they didn't "go easy on racism"? Would we all start singing kumbayah and love each other, hippy-style? Or would people be just as racist even more remote corners of the internet/world, and then slightly-left-of-center-minded individuals could pretend that all the world's problems were solved and it could continue for anot…
Letting people with abhorrent beliefs assemble with one another and commiserate on the awful things they believe... I mean I don't think I'd go so far as to say it's responsible for our current historical moment, but it certainly isn't helping it. The primary disadvantage of believing terrible, anti-social things is you would be ejected from social groups, be them communal or familial. That's not to say that racism didn't exist before the internet of course, it absolutely did; but racism and sexism were both on society scale improving over time, because those beliefs would cost you: they would cost you spouses, they would cost you children, they would cost you friends, in extreme cases they would cost you jobs and potentially even open you up to legal trouble.
And it still does, but it's less effective, because various flavors of cretin now have online spaces where they can meet like-minded people and nurture those beliefs, and worse still, all of those spaces reward extremism as any social media site does: subtle, balanced views are not incentivized at all, and you get the most social attention for saying the most outrageous thing in the space. We all know this, like maybe you've never thought about it before, but I'd wager almost everyone on this board has had this experience over one thing or another, even benign nothing issues.
And all of that is before we even get to the subject of things like influencers peddling YouTube videos, TikToks, or whatever to amplify those beliefs for their own profit. Whether they "really believe" these things is irrelevant frankly; in either case, people who believe these things see people being paid to represent their (wrong) ideas which lends them legitimacy.
And now we just have little bespoke engines of radicalization humming away all over the internet in the little shadowy corners, whipping people up into a lather about whatever dumbass thing they googled way back about how they can't get a girlfriend or whatever, and there seem to be a lot of spree shootings now for some reason, totally disconnected I'm sure.
Like the problem with this Libertarian "as long as you're not hurting anyone" is that it leaves a wide open loophole in there about hurting yourself, and while in many cases hurting yourself doesn't lead to anyone being harmed apart from yourself, as I keep saying: No one is an island, if you harm yourself in certain ways, you are absolutely a risk to other people.
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>but the moderators are explicitly told to go easy on moderating racism[ What would be gained if they didn't "go easy on racism"? Would we all start singing kumbayah and love each other, hippy-style? Or would people be just as racist even more remote corners of the internet/world, and then slightly-left-of-center-minded individuals could pretend that all the world's problems were solved and it could continue for anot…
Letting people with abhorrent beliefs assemble with one another and commiserate on the awful things they believe... I mean I don't think I'd go so far as to say it's responsible for our current historical moment, but it certainly isn't helping it. The primary disadvantage of believing terrible, anti-social things is you would be ejected from social groups, be them communal or familial. That's not to say that racism d…
The totalizing idea that your beliefs and values get to be the ones guiding the moderation of every single conversation happening anywhere on the internet (and therefore, the world) is probably more authoritarian than 80% of the ideas informing people who post on /pol/.
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I bet you 90% of the haters have never even been to the website.
i don't know why you'd bet that
because my religious redneck family thinks 4chan is a bunch of hackers who hate the elderly because fox news mentioned "ok boomer" meme once.
because ive met many people in real life who think its evil but have never been on it or have even seen it.
every normie hates 4chan, but none of them have never been there.
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#995/lit/ is a goldmine, I’ve discovered so many amazing books there. Everywhere else on the web is algorithm or voting skewed so no real opinions can be shared
Do you really truly believe 4chan is the only place opinions can be shared on the Internet?
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> " But if you desire to create your own site for social media the uphill battle is so great regulated in their honour, it's not possible. " Fediverse exists quite successfully.
You mean an open-twitter clone that caters to a very niche set of individuals? A complex system to work with. I hate the whole gimmick of 150 character messages. That's not independent like the web was once. Discord makes you pay to upload videos, sounds and those were all existing on MSN, Yahoo, A!M for free. Everyone at my school knew of NewsGrounds, mySpace, BeBo, LiveJournal. Me and my friends had hosted ProBoard…
Just ignore the Ofcom laws. If all you need is social media with friends, you can host it on tor and be good to go. The UK giv can't get at you.
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This absolutely was the case for a long time. It was the cultural center of the internet where nearly all memes sprang from or gained traction and context before leaving orbit for the greater internet. That has not been the case for years though. I'd say it shifted to twitter as things shifted to inseparably political on almost all of 4chan maybe 6-8 years back and then shifted away from twitter a while after elon bo…
‘Slop’ was a 2024 Oxford Dictionary word-of-the-year candidate, and what most of the people using it probably don’t realise is that it originated on 4chan as an abbreviation of ‘goyslop’.
"Slop" has an etymology that extends far beyond 4chan.
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The term was coined that year but the actual style exists at least since, well, Windows Aero: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Aero#Legacy
I don’t think that this corresponds to the thing called “Frutiger Aero”. The Windows Aero style existed in 2004, and somewhere around 2017, the style Frutiger Aero was invented, partly based on those styles but partly new. Just like Vaporwave. Some aesthetics existed in the past (like art deco), some are invented out of materials from the past (like art deco revival ).
I think the article is quite clear in its explanation. The keyword is retrospectively.
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/k/ has hated Russian milsurp slavshit far longer than they cared about Ukraine. For years Russiaboos would shit up the board that almighty AK superior firearm or that Russian magical remote turret tank best tank in the world or that new gen fighter plane best stealth plane in the world and all 1/10 of stupid american military budget bullshit. turns out all that crap was just what everyone expected it to be: fabricat…
And /k/ forgets the lesson that Finland learned twice, the hard way. Having more bodies to throw at your enemy is a valid, war-winning tactic. Really that's what the meme _should_ be. Russia will beat you with poorly trained soldiers and two generations old tech. Bet. But I guess that also undermines everything that /k/ stands for...
Nobody is discounting the efficiency of meatwave tactics. The problem is Russia postured itself as being the highly competent alternative force of the world order outside the sphere of North America and Western Europe. Which they demonstrably are not.