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Is alt-tech dying?

submitted by deleted to AskUpgoat 6 monthsOct 18, 2023 19:39:30 ago (+10/-1)     (AskUpgoat)

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[ - ] NaturalSelectionistWorker 10 points 6 monthsOct 18, 2023 19:47:06 ago (+10/-0)

Gab is quite active.

Telegram is quite active, though perhaps a little less "alt" at its core.

Political sites generally see their most active period during the year prior to an election. The Trump era was a bit of an aberration as the sensationalism of everything was dialed up to 11 and some people may be feeling a burnout on politics in the aftermath of the 2020 election theft and the growing understanding on the alt/dissident right that Trump was controlled opposition and there is no political solution. Now that we all know that the news is more bullshit than truth, there's less of a need to discuss and respond to the news of the day.

[ - ] big_fat_dangus -1 points 6 monthsOct 19, 2023 04:26:29 ago (+0/-1)

Yup, everyone moved to telegram. Forum sites like this are badly outdated at this point.

https://t.me/realgrughours for the voat/conpro room.

[ - ] Love240 5 points 6 monthsOct 18, 2023 19:59:16 ago (+5/-0)*

Here, I have noticed that there seems to be an ongoing effort to increase the noise-to-signal ratio here with meaningless anon posts that serve no purpose being in the anon sub, as though we aren't already anonymous to some degree, it's not like we have to enter an e-mail or phone number.

The anon posts look to emulate others' posting habits too, I think to foster contention and to attempt to obfuscate who is doing it.

Then there's the forum sliding and IDF interaction posts from Conspirologist, and root, and the anti-Christ posts of Master_Foo, NukeAmerica and johnsmith315, it's a smattering of complete bullshit on the new feed.

All of that is in the midst of the slow down you are commenting on.

I believe it to be intentional, of course, in order to do what kikes and feds and simply terrible people do best, infiltrate, subvert and shit on the table.

[ - ] x0x7 [op] 3 points 6 monthsOct 18, 2023 21:46:49 ago (+3/-0)

It's not just here. It's happening with normie sites. I've visited those a bit more than usual lately, and while they are active, everything on them, and even here, is pointless and on an endless treadmill of the same shit.

I think bots and power users alike have sought out the cheapest and most repeatable ways to get an upvote. There are no new memes, and no body makes anything unique. A suppose creative internet is on a scale/spectrum and has been moving toward less creative over time.

First people made whole websites and it was normal thing for anyone to do. Then that died down but anyone could post games to the internet that were playable in the browser (flash). Then that died. Then people made memes and those were creative, but new memes stopped. And now there is just a silo'd internet of "I love current thing" or "I hate current thing" posts. Nothing wrong with hating the current thing shoved down your throat but if that's all we got then the internet is dead.

[ - ] PhantomXLII 1 point 6 monthsOct 18, 2023 23:01:52 ago (+1/-0)

Speaking of which, send me a PM and I'll shoot you my email. You're one of the few people I actually halfway like here.

[ - ] zongongo 2 points 6 monthsOct 19, 2023 15:02:18 ago (+2/-0)

Gab and Voat is enough for me.
This place still has value. I try to promote it. It would be great if some new, quality White people showed up.

[ - ] Doglegwarrior -1 points 6 monthsOct 19, 2023 17:51:19 ago (+0/-1)

Gab is growing and keeping it based. No censorship that i have seen.

Their immune system is pretty good jdif shill fucks are recognized and called out and told to shut the fuck up.

Unlike here where you can prove someone is a jdif shill and people don't give a fuck

[ - ] Smedleys_Butler 0 points 6 monthsOct 20, 2023 00:11:27 ago (+0/-0)

Seems like it lately with the Israeli situation

[ - ] PhantomXLII 1 point 6 monthsOct 18, 2023 23:00:00 ago (+1/-0)

It's over and everyone is getting around to acknowledging it.

[ - ] SilentByAssociation 1 point 6 monthsOct 18, 2023 22:10:19 ago (+1/-0)

Arete.Network is pretty slow, too. I haven't checked them out in a month or two, but there hasn't been much to see...

[ - ] KosherHiveKicker 1 point 6 monthsOct 18, 2023 20:21:09 ago (+1/-0)

Gab, and 4chan are the only others.

4chan's structure/format is just hard for most to transition to.

[ - ] x0x7 [op] 2 points 6 monthsOct 18, 2023 21:37:20 ago (+2/-0)

Is 4chan really right of center? Maybe pol is, but I encourage people to actually take a look at 4chan, the most degenerate place on Earth. I'm all for free speech but the meme of it being this ultra-right hyper-trad site that all other trad sites wish they could be is pretty far from reality.

[ - ] KosherHiveKicker 1 point 6 monthsOct 19, 2023 00:25:51 ago (+1/-0)

4chan has everything... and I mean everything. I've read posts from Ultra-Communists thru Real "Soap Makers"

You just need to embrace unfiltered speech, and thicken your skin.

[ - ] puppy528 0 points 6 monthsOct 18, 2023 22:07:01 ago (+0/-0)

It's easy to forget there's a lot more to 4chan than just /pol/. For example, they still have entire channels devoted to My Little Pony porn and "ecchi" (by the looks, just a thinly veiled excuse for drawings of overtly sexualized minors).

[ - ] DivineLight2 1 point 6 monthsOct 19, 2023 01:04:08 ago (+1/-0)

I'm not up-to-date on weeb, but isn't there several terms for minors? I've never heard "ecchi" used for minors. This was like 15 years ago, so maybe it's changed.

[ - ] puppy528 0 points 6 monthsOct 19, 2023 10:27:26 ago (+0/-0)

I have absolutely no clue. I just saw what I saw.

[ - ] GhostCow 0 points 6 monthsOct 19, 2023 15:47:01 ago (+0/-0)

Ecchi just means something perverted. There is no word for minors. Prepubescent girls are called lolis and the pervs who are into that are called lolicons.

[ - ] DivineLight2 0 points 6 monthsOct 19, 2023 01:08:08 ago (+0/-0)

Conpro is ok, good content, few pro-fag/like types, gab is good, but it's not the same, more like X and telegram is ok, good memes and such, but again, similar to Gab.

Got to remember, me may have jidf here, but few bots, places like cuckkit are full of bots, close to 40% I'd guess, maybe higher.

[ - ] canbot 0 points 6 monthsOct 19, 2023 00:24:14 ago (+0/-0)

People are transitioning to apps like tik tok.

[ - ] deleted 0 points 6 monthsOct 18, 2023 23:39:03 ago (+0/-0)

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[ - ] Cantaloupe 0 points 6 monthsOct 18, 2023 23:16:21 ago (+0/-0)*

Part of it is probably the economy. There are probably a lot of people struggling with inflation.

Gen-Z is mostly on discord. It's unclear how tictik is doing presently.

This site is more active:
https://communities.win/c/GreatAwakening

There are creators.

There is also more that needs subverting.

CDBC, fifteen minute cities/concentration camps, Preventing children from being spayed and neutered, the coming water fake crises. Preventing participation in WW3

One can always socially engineer another mass exodus from reddit.

[ - ] Doglegwarrior -1 points 6 monthsOct 19, 2023 17:28:13 ago (+0/-1)

Just go to gab fag shills there get called out real fast. It's almost like old voats immune system. I finally gave in and blocked a jdif shill that has made things a lot better around here

[ - ] paul_neeri -1 points 6 monthsOct 18, 2023 19:55:09 ago (+1/-2)

Hmm, looks like those alt-tech social media websites are fading fast. Don't get me wrong, I get the whole free speech thing, but let's be real – Reddit has more users, better moderation, and way more memes. Plus, we all know that /r/The_Donald was the real MAGA hub anyway. So, let's go back to where it all started, huh?

[ - ] x0x7 [op] 0 points 6 monthsOct 19, 2023 15:47:05 ago (+0/-0)

Better moderation is not a positive. Walking on egg shells to say anything is not anyone's idea of fun. It would be nice to build a layer on top of reddit where it includes all content from reddit, but has its own voting, and comments go to it instead of reddit. I should build that.

Dang. Reddit charges for their API now.