/hell/ - internet death cult

>>280
>I feel like these fears account for some of the elitism that really flared up in the past few years, and led to a lot of the un-comfy xenephobic behaviors. The racism is pretty disappointing though, and isn't really funny when it's indistinguishable from all the other semi-ironic political crap that's everywhere now.
>As much disdain there is for the whole idea of chans as a 'secret club', to some people like me it really was something special, and ceased to be special when it hit the mainstream. Again, this is just my random thoughts and experiences.
I wholeheartedly agree. While it might seem foolish at first glance, I kind of miss the old "sushi rollymous is legion" thing, minus the angst angle. It was a really unifying idea that permeated race, religion, and gender in the sole idea of being a united faceless entity of internet weirdos, script kiddies, anime and video game fans, etc. "Hivemind" and "groupthink" have pretty negative connotations but *chan without identity politics differentiated it from reality and separated it from the rest of the internet from its inception to somewhere around 201X.

I've been frequenting a few smaller imageboards outside of sushi and I have to say that interesting and active discussion these days is particularly hard to find. I'm not a fan of the 8gag posting culture that seems to be seeping everywhere where people make empty, angry/bitter/holier-than-thou posts that somehow are supposed to be regarded as objective truth because of that holier-than-thou attitude. Somewhere along the line, being rambunctious and wild on chans (mainly 4) turned into being an obnoxious, predictable bore who could only babble about botnets and rattle off canned "[x] is spyware/a meme/for freetards/etc." phrases.

I don't think the idea of the "secret club" is something to be looked at with disdain, and I don't think it ever was supposed to be. 4chan was an incredible place when I was lurking in '06 before Chanology hit; I had never been on a website like it despite being a YTMNDer before and thinking I was in some secret part of the internet while there. Both of those websites to this day have never been replicated for me in terms of sheer uniqueness of the userbase, and every day I'm a little more sad that the pendulum of life hasn't swung back to those wonderfuPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

I agree that it's gotten hard, but I'm still a bit optimistic about it all, and I like to think this centralization will end some day. Consider stuff like neocities, the *chan fragmentation that's been going on lately, people getting savvy about privacy, and tiredness in general from all the noise going on. I like to think we're still passing through, and in a few years things will be better.
After all, we're in here, aren't we? musing about how to fix this, so not all is lost.

>>250
Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts… A graphic representation of data abstracted from banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding…

>>275
>they'll look at you like you shot a kitten and lynched it's corpse at half mast over Buckingham palace.
The face is even worse when you tell them you don't have any social media.

>>270
I think that it may be the case that imageboard userbases are growing, but not as fast as userbases for more "mainstream" or "consumer" websites, this giving the impression that they are shrinking (because their proportion is shrinking, even if the absolute amounts aren't).

There may also be a level of imageboard/small chan userbases being "spread thin", as the sheer number of chans increase and communities fragment and splinter.

Ultimately though, without actually looking at data, all of this is just conjecture. (And I think it would actually be an interesting project to acquire and organize all of that data, though some of it is probably hard to obtain. How to you measure the number of unique visitors to imageboards in general, for example?)

Could you explain the joke please?

>>1218
my favorite live steamer said it once and people laged so it must be funny, whicj is why i said it because saying things that funny people say makes me fubby

its funny bc you can tell it even annoys Joel now

Hi I'm Medamaude and I'm real stupid

>>1267
rude!

>>1241
i guess

i don't fit in but i'm posting anyway
deal with it

I'm back so it's less dead now I guess.

comfyness board don't move fast famo!

>>1259
please stop signaturefagging! :)

Why is the lemon hair anger?

raiders GET OUT

Why her arms like that?

>>1191
>a dangerous looking idiot approaches
>she is brandishing some scissors rather menacingly
what do /hell/?

>>1196
Compliment her on her snail hoodie to distract her.

yooooooo

yooooooooooooo

nevermind someone posted it thanks

>>1177
Don't mind me, just checking these double dubs.

>>1177
if you dont have a static ip you can just restart your router to asign a new ip adress (aka simple ban evasion)

>>238
>~nate
~nate was the second secret upload directory, apache automatically creates such directories for each users $HOME.
The upload part was a php script that didn't check for file types originally so we almost hackedd him once.
See, itamae's username on the server was nate.

But yeah, that's him.

>>225
oh my gosh

>>346
Boy, I got some stories about skinwalkers if anyone's still around on this board and interested.

>>1180
I'm always down for skinwalker stories.

>>1180
>he never delivered

d-did he get got by skinwalkers???