I'm getting too old for this shit.

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You've objectively done a lot you can legitimately be proud of: you've provided a space, the only space on the Internet to my knowledge where people like me can voice their discontent on the Silicon Valley-sponsored madness that has troons in particular and the mentally ill in general shoehorned into every aspect of our lives because muh diversity. Of course, this makes you a dangerous nazi scum in the current narrative so you can't openly collect the fruits of your intense labor, but you haven't got nothing to your name my dude, you have the fact that you're one of the precious few who stuck out his neck and refused to bend over before those fucking scumbags.

I don't know anyone else who provides the kind of service you do, let alone for free.

But I understand that if my main reason for being here is so I can rant at that madness 24/7, then I'm part of the userbase that has contributed to turning this website to shit, or at the very least has steered it away from its original purpose.

I think you're right when you say generosity at the cost of your happiness is a mental illness. My honest opinion is that when struggling to find happiness it's important to take the small steps that you can immediately take regardless of how trivial they may seem, because it gives you a feeling of progression towards your goal and that's super important, if only to get the momentum needed to really move forward. Politics is cancer and is killing the site, you say. So fucking nuke the A&H board, and any other board you feel has been overtaken with pol shit. You've honestly given the users enough warnings, and you don't owe us shit. Fucking burn it to cinders, and let the poltards, including myself, go to hell. It's not going to remove all of the political recreational outrage that plagues the site, but you'll be severing one hell of an infected limb. If I can't sperg about the hideous troons I'll just go back to the cows, I don't care.

If you can't or are unwilling to get more moderators, for me the logical solution is to axe all the boards you feel aren't worth being kept, which I hope would reduce your workload.

I also think part of your growing frustration stems from a sizeable portion of the users, especially the newer ones, being ungrateful little shits. Like when the leaks occurred plenty of users here were revealed to be weak pisscucks who panicked at the idea of their identities being disclosed and harassed you so you'd remove the archive of the leaks, before shamelessly fleeing under a rock anyway. This, after you regularly warned your users to use a fucking VPN and to not powerlevel. This, after you made several threads discussing basic cyber security. I was impressed when you actually took the archive down, I know if I had been in your shoes I would have told them all to go fuck themselves.

So really, you've done a shit ton a work and you've been a lot more patient and tolerant than many in your stead would have been. I think you've more than earned the right to be selfish and bring down the hammer on whatever it is that ruins your fun here.
 
Everyone here besides you is really like six different guys who have been here since 2014 with multiple sock puppets carrying out an elaborate scheme to make Josh go insane.
I'm the oldest old fag and actually made the very first post about chris on the internet.
 
I've enjoyed KF as a place to shitpost and talk about current events but you should pass the site on to somebody else, Josh, because you're acting like a woman. You misinterpreted section 230 last week and had a hysterical meltdown over it, and that's only one example.
Quit being a fag and posting about your feelings online, it's embarrassing. If you want to be rid of KF then delete it out of spite or give someone else the reins.
 
Honestly the only subforum I mainly browse is Animal Control (I'm the only supervisor left there and the only other mod who pays attention mainly is Meowthkip). But I disagree on the part that we killed lolcows even though this site is arguably too notorious for it's own good. Sure DFEing has gotten more common once people get a thread, and then there's kids who decide to make accounts to talk about some retard they found online. Yet despite all that I feel that politics killed lolcows more than cows learning to google their names.

About 10 years ago the average lolcow was some autist who was creating their own failed fiction online that was outsider art at best and Sonichu tier at worst. Or they were some gamer who would be easily provoked in online games. They were funny either because of their bizzare art/comics or the fact they'd get angry and chimp the fuck out. Look at why this site loved Jace even though it was performance art the whole time, people wanted to see him have meltdowns/do crazy shit on stream. Old-school schizocows like Terry or Fedsmoker had followings too because they were plain eccentric. Or look at a true oldschool cow like Derek Smart who'd fight everyone on usenet over his game, or Gothic King Cobra's trailer trash antics he films. None of them had political views or had very simplistic ones like "Trump won't say nigger" (Terry) or Fedsmoker wanting to smoke baby raper cops.

Now you can go online and half of the people with threads here are boring ass dime a dozen trannies with the same generic far-left political views. They're not posting funny shit half the time, they're retweeting some gay post about the latest political topic of the week (Trans Rights or BLM? Who knows anymore.) Sometimes there's funny shit like with a diaper shitting babyfur whining about how Paw Patrol is pro cop propaganda. But most of the time it's dull as shit depressive posts and they're only funny when a happening makes them have a meltdown. E-celeb cows are also even less funny than the tranny cows for quite a few reasons. Because people go here for drama they end up eclipsing the oldschool lolcows who either died, went silent, or aren't cared for as much because they're not producing drama.

Yet even despite this it's more on topic than the political parts of the site and that's where all the friction with old time users has been. I don't mind the Happenings subforum because discussion there can get interesting, but the board known as A&H is just a dumpster fire of baiting and rejected /pol/ users whining about Trump's Chosen. It's probably the single most divisive board I've seen on the entire site.
 
I'm saying some users have been fucked over by Null, people who genuinely wanted to help him btw

Not all users left because of boredom, and Null calling them "not worth it" is disrespectful and heartless. I'm not saying he should care for every user, but all this moaning of wanting help yet pushing and screaming away the people that actually came to give him aid is what makes Null one of the worst admins I had the misfortune of learning about.
You still haven't said which users have been screwed, nor how. It's pretty hard to sway people when you simply say something without having anything to back up what you're saying.
 
This really hurt to read because while it's all absolutely true I've always thought of you as a folk hero for liberty and one of the very last of the old guard from when the internet was still fun. I've thought your legacy is one worth aspiring to but now, I don't know.

As someone who values liberty I also frankly don't know where I'd go if this all shut down. Just about every other community is predicated on surveilling and censoring its users, the very antithesis of freedom. I know this isn't what you want to hear as you consider walking away, but I can't really explain the debt of gratitude I feel I owe you for defending the most essential pillar of the free society when it seems like no one else will. Especially when it's abundantly clear that's not what you signed up for when you started.

I guess we're old men now, eh?
 

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If I were you I would imagine myself sonetime in the future in 3 siuations:
  1. Still where you are now. Running the kiwifarms and dealing with insane people trying to shut you down. Free speech on the internet is still alive and the farms has entered a golden age of shitposting. You still rely on donations to support yourself and don't have a family.
  2. Some time in the past you had to shut down the farms and now you lead a normal life. Free speech is dead and nothing re
 
I'm new to KF, but have experience with forums, some more important than others and as a HNIC. I understand you're burned out. It happens and can't be avoided. The best approach is a break and delegation. I can tell you from experience that you will regret dismantling KF. This site has become bigger than you for a reason. More and more people are finding refuge here from the inbred cesspools of social media.

Given the amount of members, charging a small subscription monthly fee would help alleviate some of the monetary issues. $1.99 would never be missed from anyone's pocket. Fuck, even $4.99.

Those willing to help take some of the weight, you have to allow. I realize this is something you built and delgating, even to your closest friends, can be scary because it may disrupt your vision of KF or "if you want something done righ, do it yourself" mindset, but it's so necessary for your sanity. You don't have to agree with me or like what I wrote. I'm simply saying from personal experience. You seem to have a lot of good people here who would be willing to carry the load.

Oh and has your employability taken a hit? I'm sure it has. This has happened for a reason. You built an empire here. Might as well start taking a step back and looking at the angles of how it can allow you to fulfill your goals. Everything has a positive to its negative. That's not rainbows and kittens bullshit, it's absolutely true. A break will allow that "new eyes" angle. Just my 2 cents.
 
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