I think at the end of the day, most who have posted on KF realised that it is still the most chill and free speaking forums on the internet.
You can talk about how Will Smith is a cuck for that slap drama and everyone just have a laugh. You disagree on topics and move on. Other forums like Resetera straight up ban you for even questioning the science on transverstites, and change their rules on a whim of the mods crazy mood.
One moment you call Biden a pedo and sexual harrasser, after winning the primary everyone must call him the best of the best, and I don't even like Trump one bit.
Here everytime you make an accusation, people ask for proofs, and is not chastised for doing so but even encouraged. On other communities, asking for proofs means a ban.
Communities in reddit straight banning people for using "legitimate" words like retarded, and ANY bad insinuation of what the lgbt community can do is a ban. Associating lgbt with groomer is a ban, because lgbt peeps can NEVER be a groomer you bigot.
That's why there's more retention here than those communities out there that operates on a lie.
Yeah, I like the site for free speech element of it. I only use a few boards for a few lolcows but I think I've probably posted in more news threads and gaming/movie threads than any other type of thread. I'm not even one for misgendering or anything, don't really use a lot of the more intense "gamer words" because they just aren't normal words for me to see or hear around.
I've always argued that Twitter is a worse site than Kiwifarms.
I post a hot take or a dumbshit on Twitter for fun? I get people sperging at me for days. I've had a dozen people try and doxx me on Twitter because people on Twitter just are upset at the idea of me having a burner account. The shit I said to them as well was so minor Twitter didn't even suspend me when they all mass reported me but it was enough to have them going through my steam, MAL, forums I used a decade ago and shit like that trying to find clues about me lol I've had them screenshotting their mass reports of my Youtube account. I've never had that on Kiwifarms. Had numerous death threats on Twitter. Had big creators retweet me to ask their audience to come after me. Had those same people go after my Youtube, etc. Never had that on the farms.
This whole "Kiwifarms is such an evil site of doxxers and harassers", weirdly on KF I've only had like 2-3 actual arguments and all of them were done immediately and one of them was very likely Boogie2988 using a sock puppet on the site to complain about my Youtube vids of him lol I never heard from them again. No one cared after an hour. On previous Twitter accounts, I've literally woken up to 300 tweets from the same person screenshotting 100 different reports they've made about me and Facebook accounts they thought were mine including chats they've tried to have with that person's friends to 'expose me' lol I've seriously woken up to baby pictures in my DMs going "Cute kid. Hopefully 'Sinead' doesn't leave you and you never see your son again when I show her what you said!!!" lol I don't even have a Facebook. The dude was sending me random pictures of other people's babies and wives lol
People don't care what's said on Kiwifarms. Worse shit is said and done on Facebook, Twitter, Twitch, Youtube, etc. People have actually killed themselves on Facebook, Twitch, Youtube, etc. People only care because on Kiwifarms they don't have power. It's the old "Karen" move. People are just upset they can't run to Kiwifarms and click a report button and feel momentary power over someone like they can when they get a tweet deleted. It doesn't matter to them that deleting a burner account on Twitter only takes 30 seconds to have a new account set up, they feel power for having "beaten" you. It's the whole cancel culture thing, Kiwifarms just doesn't work. Most people on KF have totally unique usernames, they can't be doxxed, you can't find out where they live like you can on Twitter to get them fired because you got so assblasted by an internet fight that you wanted to ruin lives.
Don't know if this is powerleveling, if so vote away but as someone who had very little internet presence until the start of this year, I've only had Kiwifarms for 7 months and only had Twitter for the same so I like to think my opinion is quite unique.