Everything is boring i have dopamine probalems

It's like 80% bots

Last time I posted on 4chan someone was mean to me

>>183558
everyone on 4chan is an edgelord, it's where normies go when they want act unsocially. Been that way since 2016

>>183594
since reddit and facebook morelike

Since exploding vans, encyclopedia dramatica, and chanology

>>183546
bots (yes, i can sense them, and they write quite humanlike, but sooner or later i know it's bots, even when i got duped the first time)
plus the overgrown base; like as of now the whole world already knows of it, even when they never talk of it ever, they know and have lurked, and now the overgrown reach of people have diluted the "sparks" to the point it's rare; think of it like this, in a schoolclass you can see each person clearly, but in a whole school with hundreds of pupils altogether walking around in one space, the people become amorphous, monolithic, and 'unsharing', that is, everything tends toward some common denominator. that's just what happens when anything gets too big, u don't really see a shrub anymore, u just see leaves of big trees.

>>183546
because its not a real chanboard anymore

>>183673
there's a ton of reasons (like gaymergayte) but i truly believe phone-posting brought a large population of the unclean masses to the internet that otherwise wouldn't be there. the internet used to be a portal to a mythical and mysterious realm, navigated by our desktop battlestations. now the mundane world is too intertwined to unravel, and we are subject to its banality. (´～`)

I browse a thread often
where we do weekly activity like watching movie or playig games which is fun
but the thread is full of trolls or baiter who never show up for the activities
to the point I never interact with anyone in the thread (outside of organizing for events) and mainly use secondary means for that

>>183713
We are operating in the shadows and will eventually create an altnet that is connected to our ether only instead of anything Steve Blobs wanted (hopefully)

>>183713
having been there i truly do not believe phoneposting was anywhere near as devastating for the site as what came later, even gamergate was a drop in the bucket. the site was still somewhat recognisable until around 2018 when suddenly it became the favourite site of the weird uncles of the original users. even on boards with a relatively high proportion of original users you can still often feel the presence of twitter users and its quite gross. arguably twitter posters have done more damage to 4chan than actual phoneposters.

>>183765
i think the post stats from /d/ are particularly telling. back in the peak of user posts there was a great deal of eroge content being released and the old userbase was still intact. it seems the newer users do not enjoy such things.

>it seems the newer users do not enjoy such things.
Virtually all the other boards have seen a similar decrease in activity since 2020 (even more so since the April 2025 hack) - so it's probably not that /d/ in particular that's shrinking, but rather 4chan as a whole

That aspect in particular is probably a combination of it being near-impossible to post there these days (due to IP bans/distrust-by-default), the global increase in internet regulation/censorship, and that the kinds of people who would traditionally find the site appealing have either left for good or don't ever venture outside The Platforms

>>183773
this is sort of what i mean, in that evidence of the old userbase simply leaving is quite visible in more niche boards, and most of the boards are not exactly mass user boards depending on user demographics. do the grandpas that post on /pol/ all day even have any interest in videogames?

>That aspect in particular is probably a combination of it being near-impossible to post there these days (due to IP bans/distrust-by-default), the global increase in internet regulation/censorship
i have long since accepted 4chan is a pay to post platform, and will not even attempt to bypass the new multi-layer spam protections that never seem to fully stop it.

>and that the kinds of people who would traditionally find the site appealing have either left for good or don't ever venture outside The Platforms
this is the most ugly thing for me. i genuinely despise twitter, and i believe a great deal of the harm that has been done to the web is directly downstream of twitters existence and popularity. at least discord is a maze of interlinked sheltered enclaves that cant be destroyed so easily. i would still much rather an imageboard though.

>>183772
>arguably twitter posters have done more damage to 4chan than actual phoneposters.
well.. i just always assumed the twitter faggots were phonefags... ^^;

>>183792
understandable

>>183792
>well.. i just always assumed the twitter faggots were phonefags...
do you think people who use twitter on their desktop are more or less awful than the "average" twitter user? seems like the only people likely to do that are "twitter artists" or people making crappy AI clickbait videos

>>183772
>>183792
the statistics are pretty damning and this was before 2016. that said, there's more going on than just phone-posting obviously, i just have a particular animosity for phoners. the internet has consolidated into more monolithic structures that ironically fracture communities even further. it makes me wonder how things will progress from this point forward.

>>183844
i certainly wouldnt call it progress, thats for sure. i half wonder if we dont need to go back to protocol basics and think of a robust way of enmeshing home hosted microservers in a way that preserves anonymity and accessibility. we cannot possibly need the kind of overhead in terms of compute the current internet uses if we dont actually care about nonsense like web applications. id like to live in a world where i can have my own personal little talk space doing what we currently use discord for (using some better software ofc) on a tiny little single board computer that sips power and stores all its data on a simple mirrored SSD setup.

i bumped because im enjoying this conversation and it would be nice to discuss web tech and prospects more

Kinda funny that this is the first thread I see when I come on here. I was just thinking about how frustrated I've been on Tumblr lately. Used to be able to jam out with spaztard shippers but I swear everything on the site nowadays is just people making 500 page essays on why they like something and then getting into arguments with people who hate the thing they like.

The internet used to be so full of whimsy, and I mean, I'm sure its still on the internet somewhere, but it feels like you gotta fish through a sea of people turning the weirdest things political just to find a whimsyposter who hasn't been online in like. 5 months.

The phonefags comments do make me kinda curious, I was on the internet on my phone back when smartphones were way less common, so I wonder if phone users would be less common if they had to deal with oldschool phone keyboards and the jank that was the browsers on those things. Like some websites were straight up just I had to puzzle out a way to fight my phone to use the site, but nowadays every site has an app and now they censor the sites so that Apple won't ban their apps. It used to take real effort and determination to be a phonefag!! LMAO

>>183673
as a pooro hiki i remember getting my first cheap tablet in 2013 and posting about it because i found it so cool to post away from the computer..
and got bullied and called a normal fag who goes to da club

>and got bullied and called a normal fag who goes to da club
Hmmm... my memory of around that time was anons being surprisingly positive towards tablets - particularly cheap LCD ones (a novelty at the time) for the purpose of reading manga, watching anime, emulating games, etc. (basically all the same things many had previously used PSPs and phones for, but with now with a big touchscreen)

In fact I distinctly remember threads around Black Friday 2012 where everyone was trying to find good deals - I was lurking those threads cuz I was interesting in having one myself, but I didn't end up getting one... then I received one for Christmas that year anyway

>>183866
this was on /jp/ghost so maybe they were a little extra autistic about self regulating perceived norms. (´￢`)

>for the purpose of reading manga, watching anime
im thinking about getting another cheapo tab for exactly this again. phone screens just arent as comfy.

>>183795
>do you think people who use twitter on their desktop are more or less awful than the "average" twitter user?
i don't really care: if you use "social media", get off my internets!

>>183866
tablets were really cool to me initially but then i bought a thinkpad x series and forgot all about them. thats a whole other thing too, why is tech so fucking boring now? weve had 10 years of boring ass incremental upgrade slabs where is my swivel joint tablet laptop hybrid i can buy on ebay for dirt cheap with tolerable hardware for a modern linux distro?

>>183857
i remember when mobile websites were just raw html that barely rendered in a usable way