Current day Internet is fake. - Everything I read online feels scriped, fake, and forced.

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Hell, when I go to other forums (that aren't Kiwifarms for example) I can see more lurkers than posters.
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Back in mid 00s, my ex was basically a cliche /b/tard.
I asked him if he even posted on 4chan. He said no.
I called him a weak ass bitch, cause even I posted content.

Lurkers are leeches.

Anyways, yeah, a lot of internet content is bots. I remember seeing news article about it? I didn't read the 4chan screen shot yet, but I bet it has what I'm thinking about.
 
4chan's /x/ has been talking about this kind of thing for several months now, and doing tests to try to figure out the extent to which 4chan posts are made by bots (a few.) It doesn't help that there is also now a GPT bot trained on 4chan posts, making it in principle possible for 4chan posts to be fake.

KF is one of the only genuine communities left on internet I know about. Not too big, not too small. No bullshit artists self-promoting and trying to sell themselves. No spambots. No ads or algorithmically recommended content.

Really sad that 'nigger' and 'kike' are 'open sesames' you can use to keep a community from being turned into an insincere money-grubbing free-for-all (and even then it's not guaranteed, just look at all the woo woo peddlers on Gab and Bitchute.)
 
Shawtysm said:
Really sad that 'nigger' and 'kike' are 'open sesames' you can use to keep a community from being turned into an insincere money-grubbing free-for-all (and even then it's not guaranteed, just look at all the woo woo peddlers on Gab and Bitchute.)
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Don't forget Parler.

(also full of bots)
 
stupid frog said:
Lurkers are leeches.
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I disagree; you need to lurk at a forum quite a long time before you can get an idea of how to contribute positively. You wouldn't want everyone who sees a forum jumping right into it; it would alienate the oldfags and erode the distinct culture.
 
Shawtysm said:
I disagree; you need to lurk at a forum quite a long time before you can get an idea of how to contribute positively. You wouldn't want everyone who sees a forum jumping right into it; it would alienate the oldfags and erode the distinct culture.
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I guess my distaste is more for people who claim to be part of a community but arent. Like perma-lurkers.
 
The numbers are fake.

Anyone remember 9gag? A old meme site from years ago...

It used to steal images from other sites and bump them with 9k votes. Over time, the 'actual' posts were drowned out by 'boosted' posts that started with 9k votes.
 
What you're experiencing is known as hyperreality. Brave New World and Metal Gear Solid 2 do a good job of presenting it, and it's made worse by the barrier to entry for the internet being lowered, and corporatization of all major communication channels.

The internet has been dead since 2007, and Kiwifarms, of all places, is one of the last pulsating vestigial organs of what the internet used to be. I hope you don't think anything is going to get better.
 
Second-Hand Boat Supplies said:
I have another pet theory related to this about the spike in anti-antivax memes a few years prior to COVID Basically, I think they were the result of an attempt to study the spread of information and trends online and they needed a topic to make memes about to study their propagation. Those inside whatever group funded this, would have considered pro-vaccination messages to be socially beneficial so they would be a good theme to study. I posted this about it in another thread:
This is a more subtle one, but I've had a funny feeling about anti-antivax content for a while now. A couple years prior to covid, there was a huge spike in memes dunking on anti-vaxxers, particularly with the reddit crowd. It really came out of nowhere without a significant increase in anti vax content or prominence leading up to it and it felt weirdly forced.

My unsubstantiated hunch is that this was artificial, driven by groups trying to study the spread of memes and online trends generally. Big tech and governments absolutely want to know how to control the general online atmosphere and would want to run large-scale tests. I think they needed to come up with a topic to generate content about to study how things spread and chose one with a face-value positive effect. "If we can get these things to spread, maybe we increase vaccination rates, benefiting public health."

The irony of it all is that I think it actually ended up making people think that anti-vax views were far more popular than they were, since seemingly so many people needed to confront them.
It's a little strange because it's the opposite of usual vaccine conspiracy theories but I really feel it's possible down in my gut. Ironically, I also think that it backfired and encouraged vaccine skepticism by making people think there was a large, influential group of anti-vaxxers, reducing the perceived social cost of opposing vaccines.
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I've thought the same thing about the whole Flat Earth thing, with how that seemed to spring up out of the blue. At first it seemed like a widespread trolling effort, but there were countless people out there getting worked up over Flat Earthers, doing anything they could to deboonk it, despite it seemingly being tailor made to be the most ludicrous conspiracy imaginable. Looking back, that whole thing glows like the fuckin' sun.

Dom Cruise said:
It's been this way for years, so many people are just programmed drones now, no independent thought, not a single one in their heads, they do what they're told, human beings are now less human.

I lost so many online friends as the Trump era took off, so many seemingly decent people became massive pricks, it was literally like Invasion of The Bodysnatchers.
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That happened to me as well, and I was never even explicitly pro-Trump. I just questioned their stupid Chicken Little "THE SKY IS FALLING BECAUSE OF TRUMP!!!" bullshit, and with the way they reacted, you'd think I had committed some kind of unforgiveable heresy in the middle ages.
 
Pissmaster said:
That happened to me as well, and I was never even explicitly pro-Trump. I just questioned their stupid Chicken Little "THE SKY IS FALLING BECAUSE OF TRUMP!!!" bullshit, and with the way they reacted, you'd think I had committed some kind of unforgiveable heresy in the middle ages.
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Exact reason I've become extremely non-confrontational over the years. You can't easily measure how someone will react anymore.
 
Pissmaster said:
I've thought the same thing about the whole Flat Earth thing, with how that seemed to spring up out of the blue. At first it seemed like a widespread trolling effort, but there were countless people out there getting worked up over Flat Earthers, doing anything they could to deboonk it, despite it seemingly being tailor made to be the most ludicrous conspiracy imaginable. Looking back, that whole thing glows like the fuckin' sun.
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I met arabcels who unironically believe the Earth is flat.

Like, they hold a mobile phone in hand and use Google Maps on a casual basis, but lack the ability to form a connection and put one and one together.

These were educated arabs who went to Uni and have traveled, not your common 'never touched a cellphone' plebs. It's so retarded it's unreal.
 
“First was COVID, then Black Lives Matter, then the elections in America, Big Tech starts acting "weird", Groomer Teachers Panic, War in Ukraine, Elon buys Twitter, and NOW ABORTION.”

WE DIDNT START THE FIRE
 
The world did end in 2012.
Social media started becoming controlled through algorithms. Which in return started feeding people information at rates never seen before.
This hyperconnected state of the internet grows larger year by year. See how tiktok is treating our youngsters, frying their brains.
We see news faster and follow changes faster, but there are forces that choose what we see.
Stop using all mainstream social media and news outlets. Living under a rock is what'll save you.
 
is it even worth it to host social platforms that don't conform the globohomo standards? they'll just be drowned in favor of something mainstream and pozzed like twitter
 
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