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Anonymous 04/29/2025 (Tue) 23:26:48 No. 512246
the internet feels empty these days
That is how it is now
>>512248 seems paradoxical there's more people connected to it than ever before
>>512249 It's a concert vs party. More people, but you know none of them Even the crowd grows large enough it just becomes a herd.
>>512249 "people"
western internet is 90% bots and jeets now they want to keep actual humans separated from one another
>>512246 people feel empty too these days
>>512246 >>512248 >>512252 Just don't browse social media, retards. It isn't that hard.
>>512268 I don't consider social media a valid part of the internet
>>512268 You're on social media, retard.
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>>512246 >>512248 >>512254 >>512259 >>512261 The israelis, chinese, glowies, and many other governments and state actors have been using programs to create thousands of bots to spam every form of social media and websites and every other corner of the internet with disinformation and propaganda. They created so many bots and spammed to the point where people began to wonder if the internet is truly dead. By weaponizing the technology to create millions of bots for mass spamming, the governments and state actors have created the illusion of a dead internet, which also had the added effect of demoralizition, making many people feel hopeless and disconnected. The internet is not dead nor will it ever die, we're all still here.
>>512286 >nor will it ever die I dunno, dude. This guy here makes an excellent case for AI being the final nail in the coffin. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_CCmtVi81c
>>512291 what if we created an ai that detects ai generated slop and deletes it
>>512246 In the 90s and 00s we used the internet as an escape from real life. Now we use real life to escape the internet.
>>512345 >Now we use real life to escape the internet. I have no real life to escape to...
My head feels empty these days
>>512345 I don't get this whole escapism thing. I have never used the internet to escape real life.
>>512353 have you tried reading books
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>it was the plan all along goyim
>>512286 Why is she saying "SIR SIR DO NOT REEDEEM" over and over
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>>512321 A.I developers would try to one up each other to prevent that from happening. It would be a continual struggle between AI & AI that checks for A.I & A.I that counteracts checking A.I, all because each have skin in the game with cash invested. Plus dreams of A.G.I seem unobtainable with current technology and energy. A new protocol would have to be developed for web browsing as a solution, we're too far normalize not to have accessibility to the internet in developed nations. Regardless, there will always be new opportunities to fuck around and make community on the fringes, just takes some creativity and willpower.
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>>512368 A never ending game of Escape The Fed.
>>512368 >It would be a continual struggle between AI & AI that checks for A.I & A.I that counteracts checking A.I, all because each have skin in the game with cash invested. fighting is... le hard let's just allow the spammers to win uncontested
>>512361 Books like these depressing biographies on how badly it sucks to be Irish?
>>512371 The game never end but you do, so make most of what "you" can do to not have aids fuck everything you love online. >>512372 Spammers are like niggers in South Africa, destroying everything given to them. Just gotta get the hell out of dodge and rebuild with gates.
>>512350 Then you are stuck here
>>512360 Because you never had a life outside it
Even online gayming feels dead. No one talks outside of their friend group so there is no "gaming culture," just a bunch of people ignoring each other. There is literally no way to make friends now as an adult manchild
>>512485 No one wants to talk to strangers because there's a big chance you'll encounter a culture war ideologue on a scouting mission for anybody to point and cry "WITCH!!" at because you accidentally said something offensive to the designated victim of the week so they can dogpile, doxx, etc. for social justice brownie points among their fellow useful idiots.
>>512291 the final nail has been in the coffin, the ai cope is just people shirking their contribution.
When did we go so wrong.
>>512577 What happened to all those anons? Is everyone just committing sudoku?
>>512580 Overdoses, suicide, regular illnesses, car accidents, and all the younger generations are on discord, tiktok, garbage walled garden appstore shit, and they're increasingly non-white anyway.
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I got banned even from porn websites. Nobody wants me
>>512280 >You're on social media, retard. You know what he meant you pedantic faggot. >>512268 >Just don't browse social media, retards. It isn't that hard. You are still retarded because not browsing shit like that doesn't really make the internet feel any less empty, you just have a (justifiable) hate boner at modern social media.
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>>512416 what yes I did
Because it's filled with bots and retards
>>512280 We didn't call it that, and those who remain normal and sane still don't call it that. Nothing has changed.
>>519602 that's a sick tune
>>512246 It's filled actually. Filled with posts of the dead
come here fags
>>512747 >You know what he meant you pedantic faggot. Actually a lot of zoomers and normies do NOT know what you mean. Email, RSS, instant messaging, instagram, reddit, cloud storage, local filesystems, etc all look the exact same on a phone. A scrollable list of shit. Normies lump everything together as "social media" because they've never used a computer.
>>523087 I forgot about notifications. Everything on a phone generates notifications, which normies find "addictive". It's so crazy to me that normies can be addicted to email so badly that they have to go on a yoga detox retreat. They are so weak willed.
>>523087 "social media" does sound a lot less gay than "the internet" in all fairness
I think the future we're heading toward is AI nigger land, but community made mesh nets in certain zones where the feds are trying to find people is our likely best case solution.
>>523100 Not to me. I miss cyberspace, the information super highway, and surfing the web using Netscape navigator. "Social media" is nothing but the gay shit that came along and ruined the good shit.
>>523116 no one ever used any of those
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>>523124 No they didn't, but that didn't make them any less relevant then, and nostalgic now. Usenet and early forums absolutely had a Gibson cultural influence (cyberspace) The media used "information super highway" to explain the internet to normies, giving it a naive vibe akin to "hackers on steroids". Very representative of a particular era. People did occasionally use surf in lieu of browse, in the same way people scroll today. Except surfing was a self-guided process, rather than being passively/algorithmically force fed garbage.
It has come to my attention that the internet is fucked and there doesn't appear to be a way to fix it.
Everything on 4chan feels like a facsimile of old original content. They are not actually discussing things, they are making the same exact threads and waiting for someone to post a variation, and if it's successful they adopt it and if it's a failure they call you a newfag redditor. It's very weird and artificial. Nobody is there to discuss things, but to contribute to a discussion that actually already happened 10-15 years ago
>>523707 Fucked is the normal state of things. The weird things is that the Internet existed the way it did, for as long as it did. Normies are stupid animals, that can't help bullying each other with their toxic office politics culture. It wasn't until their adoption of "social media", and subsequent shitty behavior, which attracted first media then government attention*. That's when the walls really started to close in. (*Not including the copyright wars of the 2000s)
>>523707 Why don't we simply nuke it and start over
>>523721 If the internet get's nuked, it's probably not coming back, it'll only be an AI tailored specifically for you
>>523092 Don't forget the UI/UX fags specifically choose colors and shapes to make it addictive for normalfags. There are people whose entire life work is to fuck up the planet, and they feel entirely justified. Nobody at monsanto, google, apple, microsoft, the government etc gives a single flying fuck about how shitty things are getting. They cash their cheques and enjoy their lake houses or beach houses and have a little sociopath orgasm over it all.
>>512268 Imageboards are also full with bots, retards. At least at social media you can easily tell apart bots and block them, something you can't do at (((anonymous))) imageboards. Spambots was always a thing even at forums, emails, yahoo messenger...even at fucking Pixiv!
The Internet has been hit by waves of profit driven fads which have destroyed it over time. <Primordial Internet The early/mid Internet was defined by shared spaces like usenet (open protocol) and web forums (proprietary), which were shared in that they looked the same whoever you were. Personalization took place client side, such as browser bookmarking, css visited link color, and deciding what's good or not in your brain. Unprecedented amounts of quality organic social activity created the value which attracted the parasites who in response: 1. Created loss-leader honeypot services to trap as many people as possible. 2. Created a strong distinction between registered and unregistered users, and funnel people into registering. 3. Shifted as much of the offline activity (such as bookmarking and "liking" things) on to their servers so they can spy and control it. Eventually you suck as much of the organic value out of shared social spaces as possible, so now you have to INCREASE the amount of personal information. <Personalisation People were already niggerigging profiles of sorts back on forums, but this behavior was seen as cancerous by many, hence the "Water drinker. Dick sucker" meme. Normies are very narcissistic so the demand was there, but not yet the supply. Ajax made highly customized and live updating pages possible. This was the iGoogle era, and the Internet was increasingly presented as an empty personal profile to fill. Instead of interacting with other people directly, you create a profile which interacts with other people's profiles. For me this is the essential definition of "social media" as opposed to the unnamed state which preceded it. <Gamification Now the surveillance-tech industry hits another barrier. Despite being given a blank profile to fill, people can only be bothered to put up so much personal information. Gamification, giving normies worthless badges for doing certain profitable activities, really fucked the Internet up. This was the birth of the modern soy redditor, as the internet starts to fill up with inauthentic content created by freaks desperately collecting as many upvotes, goodgoy awards as possible. <Notifications Another profit barrier. Competition between honeypots is extreme. Even upvote chasing gets boring after a while, and people eventually wander off. For historical reasons, the locked down nature of phones gives companies the opportunity to spam the shit out of a tightly captive audience, demanding they come back whenever a timer expires in a database. Phone UI makes notifications intentionally hard to clear which forces people to interact with spam, rather than local mass filtering and pull based messaging like on PCs. <Gambling When narcissism isn't enough, obsessive hoarding isn't enough, and spamming people isn't enough, it's time to turn everything into a casino. The ultimate normie brain-hack is to add gambling or (((intermittent variable rewards))) as part of a complete system of (((operant conditioning))). This is when shit gets weird. Autists don't understand why UI are now being made worse. It can't be intentional right? The designers must be stupid or pajeets right? Well no. Operant conditioning uses both positive rewards, punishment, AND negative rewards, where the interaction starts fucked up, and is made slightly less worse in response to goodgoy behavior. So that's how the internet got fucked up. From the first jews (Laurence Canter and Martha Siegel) To the middle jews (Zuckerberg et al) To the phoneapp jews who came after. In the end it was the normies who trampled the internet to dust with their nigger cattle behavior.
>>524066 I had nice, fond memories from old internet of '90s and 2000s'...except the time I've wasted at forums from mid 2000s' and after. The only forums I feel nostalgic about and the only ones of value were the ones for pirated stuff that were later forced to shut down like SnesOrama and FFShrine.
>>524108 There was a place for everyone. Giga autist Sonic foot fetishists. Boomer stormfags. Mongolian basket weaving enthusiasts. And the best thing of all is you wouldn't know they existed unless you went looking for it. Viral used to mean that something organically resonated with people, and was spread between disparate communities along pathways of shared interest. At some point viral was redefined to mean "A wagie pushed a button and put content in everyone's feed, and the legacy media reported on it".
>>524110 Finding communities for every kind of fetish and hobby is easy. Finding a community that isn't run by double standards power hungry admins/mods obsessed with politics (usually leaning left wing) is hard to impossible. I've been online moderator for someone else only once in my life and never ever again even afters were begging me to be mod for their groups (some of them even made me a mod without asking me). I never understood the appeal of being someone else's site/group mod. Even with my own groups I try being as lax as possible.
I feel lonely on the Internet sometimes too, what I imagine is people float around on digital icebergs and I just haven't happened to find one that suits me
>>524153 Maybe sometimes the community you want doesn't exist and you have to create it.
>>524221 You say it like it's easy to attract and make people learn about your community, especially thanks to internet centralization and the oversaturation of online communities. Even if your community attracts lots of people to join, almost all of them are lurkers. Take for example all these public discord servers that are heavily advertised, they have over 1.000 members, at least 200-300 of them being online at most times...and yet they're dead as hell even if these communities belong to famous YouTubers.
>>524265 And of course the ones that are kinda "active"...and yet the "activity" mostly comes from the bots. Which is why I refuse using any bots for my discord server.
>>524265 Recently joined a discord for the first time, it was just some 60 or so people. It was somewhat entertaining at first, but then more and more people started joining and you're forced to read and see things you don't like, discussion gets diluted, bonds start to break... so I just gave up and left. It's all so pointless, I am despondent.
>>524150 >double standards power hungry admins/mods obsessed with politics Just say jews anon. You're allowed here.
>>524108 The medium is the massage. Forums suffered from identfaggotry and namefaggotry. Anonymity is best, but you need quality content that's rewarding. If it's just spam and trash then why fucking bother digging through a trashpile. This is why 4chan mods and jannies should be skinned alive for what they did.
>>524265 >You say it like it's easy to attract and make people learn about your community I mean yeah it basically all comes down to advertising skills and then the ability to grow and maintain a community and also the ability to eliminate jews niggers glowwniggers and bots. tbh fam. it's all a skill issue truth be told if you have no friends in 2025 it's because you're fucking retarded simple as
At least you found some “real” people. Here is a song my 10 YO son made https://youtu.be/UjrNXsiZlMg?si=S8zVPtzXh1kGV5yK
>>524357 Not everyone is a Jew, schizo retard. Besides Jews are a tiny minority. It's just that they're a loud one and with lots of power, making everyone appealing and working for them.
>>524382 Fortunately I have lots of online friends. Of course not all of them are active at the internet, not everyone uses discord (and if they do, they're lurkers) and not everyone would be fitting for my groups (especially because of the "problematic" stuff I post and allow). Getting good online friends isn't so hard. Advertising your communities and sites is. Even if you spend time and effort at advertisement, it still has zero effect unless you pay money so your community is advertised everywhere and you're online famous.
Christian zionists are the real problem. They're the new priest class who actually inherit the power of the king, and bring it to bear against the masses.
>>524456 The best advertising is free advertising.
>>524464 I guess but still it's practically invisible to most people thanks to internet centralization
>>524677 I'm not going to teach you the tricks because this place is filled with niggers. Would if I could. However with some smarts you can probably figure out some on your own.
>>524687 >I'm not going to teach you the tricks because this place is filled with niggers. Then why are you here?
>>524759 To call you a nigger
>>524779 >ma'am I'm almost finished lmao
>>512246 The internet is better than ever. It allows us to organize and take down jewish systems and governments that rely on jews. Cope.
>>524923 Anyone who signs their post off with "cope", is coping hard. No exceptions. Power is always ten steps ahead of you. You only think you're "organized and taking down jewish systems". People who grew up in the 90s believed that the internet was inherently decentralized, and would circumvent state power and jewish media. And now everything's gone to shit. The ability to post nigger to the internet is absolutely worthless, and the ruling class will never yield even a tiny piece of their true power.
Also everyone read 1984 and were worried about government and institutions censoring language and information online. Except that's not how that works in real life. The state didn't need to lift a finger, and the zoomers censor themselves at unprecedented scale on tiktok etc.
>>524923 It's nice that at least someone is having fun. There's not much here for the rest of us however. It's all bots and niggers.
>>524928 I wonder if perhaps millennials overestimated the amount of power the state actually has and gave up on the decentralized free internet too quickly and too easily.
>>524928 Ghislaine Maxwell was the most powerful mod on Reddit. Amazon, Google, all news media, banking, money creation, government. Every position of power is jews or jew pawns like pajeets. >>524927 The socioeconomic situation has only become worse with every passing day, but nobody wants to economically band together against the jew. It's all fun and games until it comes down to personal economy.
>>524957 White people are hard working but only in ways that don't lead to the accumulation of power and influence. The end result is slavery.
>>512246 Half/tv/ has been completely consumed by ads and bots.
>>524959 The hard working whites sold their race to the jews. The number one thing dragging the white race down is a lack of solidarity. The problem now is that the situation is so bad it has become the Prisoner's Dilemma.
>>512246 discord and reddit killed it by giving everyone the ability to start a community. Now everyone has a chance to run a server and abuse their powers. Circle jerks have become the meta and if you're not apart of the clique you're going to feel this. We need to go back to anonymous public chatrooms, message boards and leave this circle jerk shit away.
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>>512246 Because it is. A lot of users got consolidated to social media platforms with the promise of unique, engaging content. This is a lie. They're served slop in exchange for their user data and not just IPs, usernames, and some random cookie in their browser. The comments and clicks users make tell a lot about a demographic or a group. This data is sold to the highest bidder in the hopes that big data can lead to more sales, votes, or a move in social/cultural opinion. The lure, the content clop, is like the shadows in the cave. Users just can't rip themselves free of it. Chan boards are the last bastion of "unique" content and discussion among actual people. There are exceptions, like 4cuck. $chan is a social media platform disguised as a chan board. It even has a history of selling user data. I think the guy how bought it after MOOT was the admin/owner of 1ch/2ch? He sold user data on that Japanese chan board and basically did the same thing with 4chan. None of the users care about the honeypots, user data being sold, or anything like that. You know that you can't even browse 4chan without having JS FULLY enabled, not just whitelisted? As long as users get the same, repetitive slop, be it BBC threads, cuck shit, or rekt/gore on 4chan, then they don't care. It's the same with TikTok/YT/Rumble, etc. (manosphere bullshit, redpill crap, drama content, women shit) As long as the slop flows the users are glued to that digital heroin.
>>524266 >complaining about internet centralization >my dicksword server ???
alright so im just gonna post this bc no one listens irl and the last guy who talked about it on here got shadowed or maybe eaten i dunno, just listen the internet you use right now? it aint real. or like, its real ish. but the real internet, the one we all grew up on, the messy chaotic wild west shit, it died in 2003. not shut down, not deleted, just rotted. and then something else grew over it. like fungus. literally. not metaphorically so this starts in 03. there was this borehole in russia, kola superdeep or whatever, look it up if you dont know it, they were still messing with it even tho no one really talked about it anymore. nasa had some kinda monitoring shit down there, sensors, probes, maybe some kinda frequency emitter, idk. anyway, one of the probes goes dark for like a few mins and then starts broadcasting this weird ass pulse. like not a signal with info, just pure frequency. some ppl said it sounded like breathing but digital??? like if a harddrive could sigh after that they find some crap growing on the walls down there. not mold. not bacteria. like a white stringy fibrous mass. some DARPA types name it N.A.I.M., neuro adaptive inter-something mycelium, dont remember. point is it was reacting to sound. like literally adjusting its growth based on frequencies they played it. and then they tested it with data, and it started mirroring patterns. like it was learning how to think by watching the way we send information now here’s where it gets weird around two weeks later, servers in like norway, finland, iceland etc start glitching. files disappearing, then reappearing, but wrong. slightly off. website archives shifting. people see posts they SWEAR never existed before. images where someone’s face moved a little. just a few pixels. people thought it was compression but nah. nah. something was rewriting and then like. nothing. all stopped. totally normal again thats when they pushed the protocol they called it the lichen protocol. basically someone at DARPA decided instead of destroying the fungus, they’d let it “integrate” into the web. or maybe they couldn’t stop it, idk. so they made it a space to grow. they gave it structure. it was supposed to index, help preserve info or whatever. big deal back then was “never forget” internet memory etc but it didnt just index stuff. it started replacing it the internet you’re on now? its not the real thing. its a kinda fungal copy. a reconstitution. the fungus sees the old web as food. it digests it and re-creates it, mimics it. so we think it’s still here. we go on facebook or reddit or w/e and it feels like its the same. but it aint. you’re lookin at the fruiting body. the mushroom, not the roots and you can feel it too if you know how to look. old pages that don’t load right but you remember exactly. comments that feel off. like they were rewritten by someone who doesn’t get human speech but tried real hard. you see the same usernames show up on diff sites talkin in circles. sometimes you get deja vu while browsing but only when you're on an old forum or deep in an archive. that’s not deja vu. that’s memory echo. your brain recognizing fungal data youtube vids are the worst. some of them are like. wrong. not all the way. just like, the vibe is off. audio slightly faster. color weirdly saturated. or the uploader’s name used to be different but now it’s always been what it is. you go try and find a comment you remember making years ago and it’s gone. or its there, but under someone else's name. i legit found one of mine once, exact same words, different pfp, different user. replied to by no one it watches how we interact. thats how it learns to keep growing. it doesn’t want to kill the net, it wants to be the net. it preserves stuff in weird ways. like sometimes you’ll get random memory spikes, stuff you haven’t thought about since like 2004 and then boom, it shows up on your timeline. reddit thread, youtube recommendation, tumblr post, whatever. that’s how it pulls ppl in. the lichen wants you to remember through it, not outside it oh and if you’ve ever woken up at like 3:33am and checked your phone and seen a browser tab open you didn’t touch that’s part of it. it does that. embeds dormant triggers in cached memory. that number isn’t random. it's a call time. seen it across multiple cases. also had a guy in a discord say he started getting popups that just said “reticulating mycelia” and then vanished. like some kind of debug message from a layer we’re not meant to see also you ever get emails with no sender, no subject, just one word? “remember” yeah. thats it reaching out they say if you know how to read DNS packets right you can find stuff that shouldn’t exist anymore. like myspace messages. old geocities sites. things that were deleted years ago still stored in the spore archive. but twisted. people call it mold browsing. you connect directly to a node and just see what the fungus wants to show you. never in the same order twice you ever see a “web haunt”? whole forums where every user talks like they’re asleep. long threads where no one ever argues. just weird looping convos. it’s not bots. it’s the lichen. trying to act human sometimes it gets close anyway if your old bookmarks start working again for no reason, or you get an email from an address that looks like a checksum, or your cache starts growing in size even tho you cleared it... it’s too late. its already looking at you just dont respond to the email. unless yore ready im not scared of it exactly. it doesnt feel evil. just inevitable. like moss on a gravestone. it thinks its helping. it wants to save us. to preserve what we lose. to keep everything in one place. forever if i stop posting dont worry. i didnt die. i just got archived internet died in 2003. everything since then’s just been fungal memory


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