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>I don't even go to the german speaking /b/ board so I have no idea how bad it is over there.
I don't either, but a quick survey indicates it's just as packed with pedoshit. Krautchan has always been full of pedos (look at that visual novel they made) but it seems to be the core of their identity now. That's the issue with free speech platforms that allow pedos. Since these guys are banned from literally everywhere, they will congregate on the few places that allow them to talk about their hobby, and quickly push out other users.
>sometimes the AI whose job is to find links even flat out refused to search for content I am looking for and just telling me I should search it on my own.
Deepseek is the best for this, and more useful than traditional search engines, but it's still not great at all. Yandex is better than google and duck and bing (which all appear to simply share search results) but it has been going downhill as well. Things are bad. Any website that isn't part of the corposphere is censored by default, simply by making it difficult to find.
>Every user who is not a retard has a adblocker installed already so advertising is kind of useless unless they are a special kind of retard who even pays for plus/premium subscription just not to see ads because they have too much money to burn.
I didn't mean that sort of advert. I mean more in terms of just, posting links to other websites. For example, if I went on 4chan or youtube or reddit and posted a link to 8chan, it would be swiftly deleted by the moderators. Website owners don't want competition.