From time to time I have the desire to discuss topics I am interested in with like-minded people, mostly stuff related to video games but different fields as well, and without having to be politically correct or having to call someone "they" or whatever the fuck. This seems to have become impossible on nearly all platforms.
Twitter? No comment.
YouTube? Heavily censored, nevertheless they are still allowing a few decent channels, but a lot creators have been forced to "self-censor" due to the ever present threat of demonetization.
Reddit? Some subs may still be relaxed, but KiA2 going private shows how dire the situation is, and it will only get worse.
Discord? Smaller servers can still be decent, but they hard to find and rare, the rest is full of woke normies and absolute filth. Even on gaming related discords one struggles to find decent people, and then there are still the moderators...
4chan? You won't get censored in most places, depending on the jannies of course, but most of the posts are of very low quality, a lot of spam, it is not a great experience for the most part.
I can't think of much else that is noteworthy, thus I'd like to know what you guys use and can recommend.
What did he do? Out of curiosity visited resetera a couple of times, absolute cancer.
Commie trannies have somehow gained control over almost every mainstream public forum.
You need to accept that either you walk on eggshells to participate with the normies, or you put up with smaller, less convenient, spread-out, less polished alt-tech communities but at least you won't get banned for saying men can't turn into women.
Gab, minds, ruqqus, saidit, poal.... here
matrix over discord etc
How dare you
Who does actually use Matrix over Discord? Ruqqus for example still uses Discord. Poal seems quite interesting though, thank you.
Matrix is better for discussion because it's harder to censor.
I am aware of that, just wondering if there's actually larger communities who use it yet.
Sounds like somebody never used usenet.
You got that right, I am not that old and grew up in the late 2000s using TeamSpeak and 4chan, which (nowadays) is mostly low quality spam, with a few gems.
4chan has always been low quality spam. The site is usable because once you're accustomed to it your eyes just gloss over every spam post and pasta and you just read it like any other site
It sort of depends on what you want. I just threw away generic social media (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc.) totally for the most part. Haven't really missed it. Local friends and family? Texts mostly. If that goes down the censorship road then I have some alternatives.
Otherwise I have found I like to keep my online communities small. I hang out here mostly as it's fairly sane, yet I feel like it doesn't get too close to an echo chamber. This site is about the only place I converse with people I don't know personally.
As far as alternatives and mainstream stuff I still use:
If they come after my texting, then I will be pushing conversation to decentralized XMPP protocol services with encryption. Why push to Telegram or WhatsApp or something that already has a big target. Generally my texting is fairly apolitical anyway.
Instagram is just horrible. You type a letter into the account search, and after going through who your friends follow, it will just be thirst traps. Constant teen and college-age girls taking very suggestive pictures. On the other spectrum, a lot of guys just flash their wealth and abs. Totally not great.
Yeah, I think it was the first one to go. I ditched it back when it was just a bunch of people sharing how much they love their masks. I like photography and the concept of sharing pics with friends, but not in that environment.
I still have it, but keep the people who I follow to a minimum.
Mine is full of architecture and bushcraft.
I've been looking at doing my own thing using InspIRCd behind my home VPN. It looks like there's potential to even encrypt IRC traffic on top of the VPN encryption. For those of you who don't know IRC it's old school tech and news orgs like to refer to it as the dark web to make it sound scary.
I think we're at a point where infrastructure needs to think about going back to the end user. We've had too much consolidation at the corporate level and taking the time to build your own system, secure it, and invite only people you know will really be the way to go. Any time you allow a lot of people in you'll inevitably get the commie/SJW crowd because they're usually trust fund kids and they don't have a job to go to leaving them all day to ruin your work.
I know IRC since it's still used in the Torrent community. But it's dying and there are reasons for that. Agreed on the last part, certain kinds of people have a vastly stronger presence because of this, usually the ones who like complaining about the "privilege" of others.
Every now and then I look into using retroshare which looks like it's a spiritual successor of the old WASTE software from the early 2000's. The thing I liked about that platform is you had to invite people, though if you invited the wrong people in it could destroy your group (which was a problem back in college when we were using it to share movies and music when someone invited some narcs).
Fine, fine, here: https://anon.cafe/boards.js
That shows the webring. Do you remember webrings? They came back. (actually, the win network is like a webring too)
Even if you're a fed, the attacks have been mild recently so I think they can handle having a reason to upgrade security.
Minds has been pretty good as a Twitter alternative in my experience. Slowly getting more active
Do they require a phone number? And how's the crowd? More QAnon believers/sages or actual based people?
No phone number. I haven't seen any QAnon people, but I mostly follow dudes I used to follow on Twitter. No idea how the overall site breakdown is.
My experience is mostly based people
I'll give it a try then, who do you follow?
Scrumpmonkey, Sargon, Lo_Ping, hindudindu, mckrow comics, hedgewik, undeadscribe, Tasteful Booties
Not bad, for a pajeet at least.
Locals has a subscription service to different creators' communities, and they leave the control/censorship of each community up to the specific creators. Dave Rubin, Viva Frei & Robert Barnes, and others use it. It does cost money, it's like a pseudo-patreon alternative / limited social network.
If you want to support pseudo-conservative kikes and fags, than this is an option. Hard pass for me though, don't care about kikes and attention seekers (hard overlap right there).
I’ve heard about it from Better Bachelor but I’ve wondered how viable paying to interact with people really is
Funnyjunk.com is pretty based if you're looking for funnies.
Edit: Crap, one meme and now I'm stuck listening to sea shanties.
Matrix and Telegram
A few more subs wouldn't hurt and also get more people to use the site, but otherwise I agree that this place is looking decent so far, which can quickly change due to drama and what not.
All it takes is for Patriots to go beserk and the whole place goes down.
Shameless mention for 8chan.moe.