Which other social communities do you lurk or partake in? I don't really visit imageboards anymore, more Reddit alternatives like Scored.co and the likes. And also KiwiFarms purely out of boredom. And sometime I pop into an IRC.

Get a hobby.

P43658

Torrit
Lambdaplusjs
Lambda Two
Lambdaplusjs Home
Bitchan

Pretty much only the lambdasphere, as well as some IRL related places.

P43658
Mostly just lambda, sometimes misc dead imageboards few times a week, I have them bookmarked. I visit and post on Kiwifarms a bit more often, hopefully I can make a thread there once in my lifetime. Also DNM forums are kinda fun, for me I can just read drug experience reports on the pysconauts wiki for hours. streamanon's site is also pretty nice that time of the month when I manage to catch him streaming. The only IRC I visit is the teaparty one, but even that is mostly dead (at least when I join).

4chan is just pure cancer, but there are a few hideouts that are somewhat bearable due to them being mostly composed of 5-10 dedicated individuals posting plus a bunch of non-regulars coming in. There is a stark contrast between the quality of posts inside and outside of those generals. But I've mostly left 4chan in that regard for a while now, because even those select places with some quality are extremely repetitive bs. Take [wsg] for example, there are maybe ~5k webms that cover 99.9% of the posts made in all threads during any period. Even once you've seen a couple hundred webms, you are pretty much done for any general.

At large the internet is dead and this is becoming more and more the case every year. The only hope left is some of these alt-tech platforms, but most just have an awful userbase with no regards as to who comes joins. Mastodon and the (de)fediverse are excellent examples, as they've been fragmented so much throughout the years that it defeats the entire purpose of being federated. You will only be able to interact with people adjacent to your own homeserver anyways. These issues, alongside fundamental design/implementation (I'm looking at you Matrix) flaws are only compounded by the gigantic boners that the govt gets whenever a mass shooting or similar happens allowing them to regulate, control, surveil, and repress the internet even more with some BULLSHIT(R) Act number 2332412e234 of 2023-2-2342 resolution 2427927.

Maybe that is going a bit off tracks, but I really hope the neets and soyware devs are able to pull their pants up and work for once to create good software and platform. The bomb making guides in P41883 are the solution the trannies harassing them.

My hobbies are pretty niche and the communities around them are really small, so only a handful of online places.

You didn't ask for it but I'll tell you anyway: I used to visit Reddit a long time ago but that place is a *****ing cesspool. I also used visit 4chan but I just can't be *****ed reading about politics constantly. Who the ***** cares what a demented old man is doing? or that our retarded government is being retarded again and *****ing us over (again) but no one seems to care... it's tiresome, can't read it any more tbh.

Right wing politics has also become a *****ing meme
>OUR *****S ARE MORE BASED THAN YOUR *****S
>OUR JEWS ARE MORE BASED THAN YOUR JEWS
>OUR GAYS ARE MORE BASED THAN YOUR GAYS
>OUR TRANNIES ARE MORE BASED THAN YOUR TRANNIES
Soon:
>OUR JIHADISTS ARE MORE BASED THAN YOUR JIHADISTS
>OUR *****PHILES ARE MORE BASED THAN YOUR *****PHILES
And so *****ign on, rinse and repeat.

It's just petty showbiz, always has been.

I am also part of some discord, matrix and irc communities but I feel over socialized so I just stopped visiting for a while until the feeling passes and I feel like being part of it again. I've also been neglecting irl friends and just focusing on myself, my hobbies and things I need to do.

P43678
>At large the internet is dead and this is becoming more and more the case every year
Once these language models hit the marketing departments for good there will be entire AI armies shilling their shit and it will seem like you're talking with genuine people while all that is happening is you being herded to think in certain ways.

The only places that will be truly alive are places that aren't worth astroturfing on, such as lambda, usenet groups, irc, bbs and services in the dark net like tor/i2p or other obscure (to the normalfag) online places. Anything popular will go instantly to shit.

>Where do you go online?
That's not your *****ing business.
***** you.
P43678
>4chan
4chan is exponentially better than this shithole.
There is literally nothing of value on lambda, just a bunch of dysfunctional retards.
>Kiwifarms
Full of dysfunctional retards but somehow not as dysfunctional as the retards around here.
P43680
>The only places that will be truly alive are places that aren't worth astroturfing on, such as lambda, usenet groups, irc, bbs and services in the dark net
This take is retarded, only dysfunctional retards browse the places you mentioned therefore nothing of value is ever posted in these places.
Popular == Bad is a 12 yo contrarian bad take, darknets sucks, the people in darknets sucks, usenet/irc/bbs are dead and not coming bad, evolve or die, stagnation is death.

P43665
What's a good hobby for someone who doesn't like going outside and thinks pretty much everything is boring and shit?

P43685
Looking for a hobby and only listing the things you don't like isn't very productive. A hobby is supposed to be something you like

>My hobbies are pretty niche
yo are you into ice sculpturing too?
>OUR *****PHILES ARE MORE BASED THAN YOUR *****PHILES
yeah lambda peods are way more based than twitter *****s
>There is literally nothing of value on lambda, just a bunch of dysfunctional retards.
yeah this is why you keep coming to this place
it's fun
>What's a good hobby for someone who doesn't like going outside and thinks pretty much everything is boring and shit?
explosives
if you are suicidal it's a great substitute for extreme hobbies like climbing or mountain biking
try out shit that is boring but gives results
like gardening or sewing or electronics or cooking
maybe get into drugs those are fun

P43683
>Popular == Bad is a 12 yo contrarian bad take, darknets sucks, the people in darknets sucks, usenet/irc/bbs are dead and not coming bad, evolve or die, stagnation is death.
Popular places suck more though. They're botnet infested and use algorithms that make sure you only ever see $CURRENT_THING or people parroting the same opinions as you.
I guess hobby-related reddit groups aren't so bad, but it sucks how centralized it has all become.

P43683
>4chan is exponentially better than this shithole.
>proceeds to post in said shithole.
Your words are completely worthless, apparently.
>only dysfunctional retards browse the places you mentioned
>nothing of value is ever posted in these places
There are niche communities in the places I've mentioned with information available nowhere else on the internet. The communities will probably die when the boomers die off but I will enjoy it while it lasts.
>Popular == Bad
It is. Look at Reddit, 4chan, Discord, Matrix and the internet in general.
With popularity come normalfags, with normalfags come marketers and AI astroturfing and with it the soul of whatever communities were created die.
Popularity is where souls go to die.

Anything normalfags get their hands on become shit by default and you can't convince me otherwise.

P43683
>Popular == Bad is a 12 yo contrarian bad take
One can be right for all the wrong reasons. It's a true assertion, when more and more people join a group the return to the mean is inevitable. Only small groups can maintain a high signal-to-noise ratio because they can be "lucky" and have a high concentration of on-topic posters.

P43678
>4chan is just pure cancer, but there are a few hideouts that are somewhat bearable
I've found that the tech related threads on /mlp/ are pretty comfy (picrel). Lainchan /lambda/ and sometimes /tech/ are decent.

>yo are you into ice sculpturing too?
no

P43679
Unless you are an urbanite American, just take on hiking as a hobby. Maybe not that interesting or intense, but for me it helps to go out anywhere with basically only my clothing, sit down and relax outside of the noise of real life.

And yes politics has devolved into useless shitflinging contests, who cares at this point. I've long learnt to not be in political spheres. Even in more "normal" circles it's just "reality is fake gay luxury spacecommunism will happen in just two weeks" bs.

P43680
The worst part about alt-tech is that they rarely ever consider social design of their new platforms. A level of exclusivity is needed, it helps maintain a "culture", it helps maintain sanity. Online discourse goes to shit when the barriers of entry are lowered and the platforms become "inclusive to new members". ***** that, new members of any group should learn to behave before being able to properly join. Otherwise, you just end up with a monoculture of normalfags that will regurgitate the cancer from Tiktok, Discord and the likes.

P43691
I used to browse lainchan a while back, it wasn't that bad and there is actual technology/programming discussion rather than /g/ flamewars. Actually, I remember now that I joined their IRC and turns out they are all gay college/highschool students with nothing better to do. The (once was) admin of lainchan is picrel, so go figure.
>https://web.archive.org/web/20200131162520/https://wiki.installgentoo.com/wiki/Lainchan#Moderation
Also replace the double-archived link.

P43688
P43689
>yeah this is why you keep coming to this place
>proceeds to post in said shithole
Yeah I came here to laugh at you.

P43689
>It is. Look at Reddit, 4chan, Discord, Matrix and the internet in general
How much the platform sucks is irrelevant to me, I have my countermeasures for that(boohoo they banned me! so what just make another account, just evade filters, etc, yeah I am the reason you have to fill captchas on the internet), what matters is the people that use the website cause that's why I use the internet for, to network with other computers and therefore people, I don't go to websites to masturbate my ego about how le private and le based a website is.
People on darknet sucks, I've been proven right time after time and as someone that used to believe the "Obscure == Good" contrarian meme.
Most people on popular places sucks too, but that is just cause most humans sucks in general and this is a truth you have to accept instead of running away from reality to more and more obscure places which will disappoint you in the end cause they suck even more.
It's a statistical fact there will be more good people on a popular websites cause there will be more people in general, it's all a matter of finding them and about the algorithms I just ignore it and use my experience to find the good people.
>With popularity come normalfags
Wait you're telling me you have not trained your brain to filter out normalfaggotry years ago? Upgrade your brain's pattern recognition firmware.
tl;dr skill issue

P43690
>/mlp/
lol, lmao even
Anyway /diy/ is the best board atm
>Lainchan
ded circlejerk since years

Ok a honest contribution to the thread here it goes:
4chan and Discord having high activity and a higher than average concentration of autism, therefore they are the best place to have discussion about anime and vidya or similar hobbies or just shitpost and have fun.
Github is THE place to talk about technology as it's the place where people actually do shit unlike the nocoders who love to complain and do nothing and learn nothing.
Anyway even *****ing 4chan/g/ is an abyss above the wasteland that lambda/tech/ is

>/diy/ is the best atm
it *****ing sucks
they discuss boring shit in a retarded way
/ohm/ and pretty much everything regarding electronics on it *****ing sucks
sadly no good places to bitch about chink chonks on the net
and they are slowly turning into another shitty /fit/

P43688


>yo are you into ice sculpturing too?
>if you are suicidal it's a great substitute for extreme hobbies like climbing or mountain biking
>try out shit that is boring but gives results


off-topic really is off-topic, and fagmin never bother moving this just because the OP uses retarded japanese cartoon.

Fagmin is also a dysfunctional retard who scares of pictures of persons who have died.

>offtopic
we aren't on reddit *****
we can talk discuss anything here
OP is a mere suggestion

P43658
>datamining thread
>Scored.co requires javashit
This place is a shithole. The only thing is darknet communities people are more genuine. So as a result you get to see how shitty people really are. Most posters here are useless eaters with no life that post toxic shit or try to dunk on others that might have offended them in the slightest way. Very non productive but what can you expect from people that their whole identity is online. Really they are no different then social media normies.

P43733
>>offtopic
Historicalfag is admin, and we all know how much admin loves spoonsorting, offtopic triggers him at a deep level, we should do it more.

P43683
>4chan is exponentially better than this shithole
lmfao *****ing retard has no idea what 'exponentially' means
>There is literally nothing of value on lambda, just a bunch of dysfunctional retards.
>t. lambda user

P43685
idk, jacking off?

P43693
>The (once was) admin of lainchan is picrel, so go figure.
holy shit im getting strong brazilian vibes from that guy
were they really admined by a monkey?

P43696
>Yeah I came here to laugh at you.
>proceeds to post even more cringe than before

P43779
>lmfao *****ing retard has no idea what 'exponentially' means
I am a certified /math/ faggot dude I ran the numbers and 4chan exponentially better than l*mbda.
>>There is literally nothing of value on lambda, just a bunch of dysfunctional retards.
>>t. lambda user
Did I ever imply I was functional? This doesn't negate that lambdafags are dysfunctional, in fact my own dysfunctionality further proves my own point.
Chekkumeito libtard.
>proceeds to post even more cringe than before
Reminder that while 99% of lambdafags are nocoders and larpers on 4chan you have gigabased tranny hackers absolutely owning corpos:
https://desuarchive.org/g/thread/93320820/#93320820
How will lambda ever recover from this?
Please go ahead and post things of value produced by lambdatroons, go ahead I am waiting.

P43792
>Please go ahead and post things of value produced by lambdatroons, go ahead I am waiting.
Maybe just /tech has some good information, but thats about it. Everything else is peod, glow, stupidness posting. What did you expect?

P43792
>still not knowing what that word means
rejoice, your retardation earned you one snickering animegirl
>in fact my own dysfunctionality further-
yea further invalidates your opinion

I need direct links to your favorite communities.

MODMODMDODMODMODD HE HAS ***** *****!!!

Probably the first good thread on here in months

P43685
Do something you can learn, improve, share and contribute to.
My personal hobbies are things that I just had a random interest in and that small interest just kept growing.

You might have to force the interest in the beginning but just keep exposing yourself to the hobby.

You might need to make some friends first. I find having friends that have a hobby can rub off on yourself. I like to compete so I like to challenge my friends at what they are good at.

>Popular == Bad is a 12 yo contrarian bad take...

Buddy. The internet went to shit in a perceivable way, in proportion to its popularity.

This is because ease of access to any space lowers the average IQ of that place. The only reason interesting spaces exist is because of elitism.

P71127
Come to I2p.

P71127
Clearnet is smarter than derpwebz by a huuuuge margin.

I go everywhere I don't go and some places I do go.

I know you're reading this faggot, suck my dick.

P43679
>OUR JIHADISTS ARE MORE BASED THAN YOUR JIHADISTS
>OUR *****PHILES ARE MORE BASED THAN YOUR *****PHILES
Except these are actually based. We're so deep into cringe world that these are the last step rather than the first.

P43683
>usenet/irc/bbs are dead and not coming bad, evolve or die, stagnation is death
Actually good take despite the garbage surrounding it.

P43691
Pony gets it. Filtration is the key to all greatness. The prestigious universities are prestigious because they used to heavily filter for people with bright futures, then take credit for educating them. Attending them doesn't make you smarter.

But still, older platforms are usually not better, they select for boomers and (bad) autists. It's also curious how people skip right over XMPP, which is actually a good protocol but lacks good clients, to irc, which sucks ***** balls.

Ideally, we'd make a new platform that is too difficult for midwits and low-wits to use, and facilitates niche community development. But that's probably just me making the mistake of trying to solve a human problem with software.

for consuming content:
-youtube
-telegram

for socialising:
-lambdaplusjs
-beecee's stream when he streams
-vydia gaems when I talk with lads from the same team about stuff


in most social groups that I enter I either get hated, kicked out or (kind of rarely) the group just dies out
the first two is either due to the fact that my autism somehow triggers them (sad libtards lmfao), I say ***** and shitskin and such, I annoy fags with my autism and/or they're a bunch of fed/bots that try to convert me but can't cuz I am unchangeable [spoiler:all of those that know me told me, face to face, that I haven't changed one single milimeter from the original me][spoiler: based ]
the last one is cuz people lose interest in the group as they find something else that is more intereting to them and stuff, die, change lifestyles (i.e. ted kaczynski) and/or change social groups like they change their underwear; the groups usually becoming shitty repost groups or dead silent with spurges of activity

I say this is due to the fact that people aren't social anymore, but shitty bots of the state and corporations
nobody is like before since 2019, everyone went to shit, expecially with the corona plandemic
the only solution I see is killing das juden, *****s, ragheads and satanists

P71415
Anything based on XML is cancer. IRC sucks as a protocol but at least it's not XML.

There are already "platforms" that are too difficult for IQ <= 120 to use. Private communities exist. The nice thing about having a private community is that you're not obligated to publish an RFC or an internationalized C library with Python bindings. But you really are making the mistake of trying to solve a human problem with software. The possibility of still writing networked computer programs the way MIT neckbeards did in the 1970s doesn't mean that highly intelligent individuals actually want to do that. I think most of them would just stop using computers altogether if they could.

P71425
>wah wah XML
Use a library. Stop trying to larp like you have to write XML parsers or something, you're just going to use a library that either deserializes the XML into something almost isomorphic to JSON, or you're going to use an XMPP library and not deal with XML at all.

P71377
Captcha plus 20+ minutes *****U ***** on an 8 core Ryzen 5 for crypto mining. Never did get to post there. Their lose.

-100 with this faction

P71453
I'm not complaining as if I had to write my own XML parsing code, *****, I am complaining about the libraries, and above all I am complaining about what the XML spec requires those libraries to do. It's complete overkill for a simple messaging protocol. You don't need the features (or the bugs) of a semantic markup language for that. You're welcome to use it in your project and to enjoy maintaining it down the line, though. Have fun!

P71594
You are not writing code or "maintaining" anything though. You wouldn't even know if a chat application was using XML unless somebody told you. Complaining about something that doesn't affect you in any way is transparent attention seeking cancer.

P71415
>Ideally, we'd make a new platform that is too difficult for midwits and low-wits to use
That's exactly what Tor was 15 years ago we had hackbb, torchan, tortalk, onionforum it was great. But then all the illegal content prompted #operationdarknet and the resulting media/police attention destroyed everything. Ironically the reason why i2p has always been a lifeless wasteland is because of all the effort the devs put in to prevent people finding illegal content in the first place. Damned if you do damned if you don't.

P71499
>Captcha plus 20+ minutes *****U ***** on an 8 core Ryzen 5 for crypto mining.
The code is open source, but the bake time is excessively long. Only way to keep *****s from spamming real ***** I guess. When you have a bypass it's hard to get banned though.

P71597
By that logic, I wouldn't even know if a chat application was using something better than XML for data transfer (which it wasn't designed for), so defending its use in a chat protocol is also attention seeking cancer. It does affect me though because it is code running on my machine, which means that when the libxml2 developers distribute code that can trigger an out of bound read when encoding entities my chat client, which calls that code precisely for the stupid reason that XML is a overly complicated bitch that is difficult to correctly process, is now vulnerable. But I'm sorry for seeking attention on your anonymous ***** forum by questioning XMPP's technical merits instead of dumping my ***** library or announcing my intent to rope myself in the wake of the sad results of HRT, I suppose that would be more in keeping with the general theme of this ***** tier message board.

P71617
>I'm sorry for seeking attention
Don't let it happen again.

P71663
is sarah on jabber?

P71665
sames more like one of those matrixfags that over use nero arc