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.
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