Clean TP is useful. Used TP has negative value, it’s the sort of nasty trash that you see with disgust, and that you can’t wait to get rid of.

Yup. It isn’t like Reddit is known for efficiently tackling the problems that appear.

1. Whatever pigboy says is worth as much as used toilet paper.
2. This will be likely ineffective against bots but screw legit users major ways.

What about old style search that does not suck? And by “not sucking” I mean:

• It doesn’t show you results missing a search term.
• It has simple and functional Boolean logic.
• It doesn’t assume = bullshit what you meant.
• It doesn’t try to answer questions by itself.
• It is either language-agnostic or respects the language options of your browser.
• It doesn’t show you “AI snippets” or whatever.
• It doesn’t take your location into account, unless you explicitly say so.

You don’t need AI for that dammit.

I’m not opposed to A"I"; far from that, I actually use text generators a fair bit, sometimes image gens. It’s simply a technology and I use it as such. And I still bloody hate how corporations handle it:

• Always two weights, two measures. If you violate their IP, you’re a filthy criminal; if they violate yours, you’re overreacting and a luddite and harming progress. I want to see copyright gone, but if it is not, then apply it consistently to all sides. (By the way, fuck “Open"A"I” and their Bob Dylan defence.)
• Always nagging you to use it. If you’re nagging me to use something, it’s because it’s in yours best interests that I use it, not mine. No means “no” dammit.
• Always implicitly lying about its abilities. No, I’m not going to ask it anything where a bullshit answer might ruin my day, stop misleading me to do so.
• Always downplaying issues. Yeah, nah, I’m not blind to the environmental concerns around training those huge models. Or that corporations - that don’t understand what “consent” means - basically DDoS sites to train their models.

But of course they won’t talk about this, right? This sort of questionnaire is not made to genuinely obtain feedback; it’s made to mislead you.

Yes, it is a waste of effort. But as my grandma used to say, “a lazy person works twice” - those people can’t be arsed to learn how to use platforms more resistant to this sort of enshittification, so they keep migrating.

Even then, it’s still better that they’re doing this silly dance and migrating again than sticking to that Xithole.

Bluesky might be far from ideal, but I’m still glad to see researchers aren’t playing along Musk and his dog’s bullshit.

Cool. Get dunked, hipsters’ Electronic Arts Paradox Interactive.

Welcome to real life: advertisement is seen as filth. People might tolerate it in exchange for something else, but being “targetted” doesn’t make them less filthy; on the contrary, once you get how it’s being targetted at the expense of your privacy, comparing it with dog shit becomes unfair - because dog shit is less worse.

As such I want to see Perplexity bankrupt.

Hexbear started in Reddit, as r/chapotraphouse.

“Personal information fuels much of AI innovation so people need to trust that organisations are using their information responsibly,” it said.

*sigh* Please make me forget that “trusting” is just an euphemism for “gullible”.

Anyway. It’ll get worse over time; for now they claim that your messages aren’t being fed into Meta AI, but that’s bound to change later on.

Perfect analogy. I still used /vg/ and very rarely /a/, but nowhere as much as I did before. Methheads moved in, I moved out, and now the house burned.

Fair point. And frankly, he should’ve done this.

moot sold the site to hiro in 2015, but I think your reasoning is valid - it’s possible hiro is not too eager to defend the fascists who infested 4chan, and simply won’t bother to put the site up again.

NO U

Can you even triforce? NO YOU CAN’T BECAUSE YOU’RE A NEWBIE, THE CANCER KILLING /b/! FUCKING SUMMER

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…fuck, I can’t triforce either!

(About the -fag suffix: sorry to be “that guy” but let’s avoid using it, OK? It’s 2025, and we aren’t in 4chan, that implicit “-fag means nothing” context is gone.)

(Caveat lector: IDK/DC who are Roy Moore or Doug Jones.)

…this sort of power-tripping bastard, desperate to enforce their opinions, was really common in 4chan. However Fubarberry is talking about structure; structurally speaking 4chan highlighted divisive opinions, while e.g. Lemmy, Lebbit etc. do the opposite.

/ck/ (cooking - mentioned by the article), /vg/ (where people discussed video games; /v/ aka /b corta/ was a shithole), /sci/ (science) were also decent. /tr/ /vp/ (Pokemon) was also really fun, at least when I still enjoyed the franchise. /a/ (anime) was a bit of hit-or-miss.

/b/ was only the main pipeline of cancer until /pol/ was created and took over the crown - instead of cancer mixed with dumb trolls and memes, /pol/ was pure and distilled cancer.

probably a hangover from too much Robot Unicorn Attack

Fuck, I miss that Flash game. Catchy song, simple but addictive mechanic, weird and awesome.

I remember when /b/ was good. But then that “moot” newbie came in, and ruined things forever.

…jokes aside I’m going to miss 4chan. Or at least the 4chan from the late 00s ~ early 10s, that I used periodically; it was already problematic, but as other users here said it was a unique experience.

See ya, space cowboys.

Be careful with this sort of comment. You don’t want to piss off Musk by mocking his property, do you?

Delicious.