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Yeah I just scrolled passed that shit cause it shocked me too much to engage. Not exactly proud of my b-slur days, but also wasn't the best time in my life, and there was something oddly welcoming about the site back then. A site where everyone called each other a f*g in ironic comradery vs having it thrown at me by homophobes. Would have never associated the site with anything good though, using it was like willfully exposing yourself to something insane at the click of a button. If you were the right mix of computer nerd and socially isolated, 4chan offered something that you couldn't get anywhere else.

Almost 20 years later I actually value the experience of being on 4chan more because of how influential it became to online culture, and later how politics happens on the the internet, and the demographic who uses it becoming so identifiable. It's very rare but on a few occasions I've come across normal people in real life who were b-slurs at the same time, and it's crazy how recognizable it is.

I don't know of any either and I'm on like 40+ servers probably. I've run our weekly dnd on it for years without issue after trying the other options. Get that it's not good for tracking and documentation in any official capacity but it's pretty damn good for active niche interest communities.

The music production servers I'm on are a perfect use of the platform IMO. There's a server run by a guy who manufactures an open source tracker device, and there's channels where people post works in progress, get help from others, there's streaming events where people can submit songs they've made using the device, etc. There's a bunch of people popular in the music scene who regularly help noobs. Always ongoing active discussions, everyone is polite, there's a lot of knowledge shared in real time.

So when people are like "Discord sucks use my favorite platform instead," I'm just like I don't even care about the platform I just wanna be where some cool shit is happening and your platforms are fucking boring. Show me the cool servers on your platform then so I actually want to use it. It's the idea of these platforms people like, and I like it too, my close social group uses a privately hosted Matrix service which I use every day, but I've never found a comparable community on these services outside of this use case.

Yeah I remember in the 00s it was an instant ipban to post pedo shit, but also pedobear and joking about it was common. It seemed like people would post actual abuse materials to troll the site but it was quickly dealt with. I was there for "brb church" though where 4chan vigilantes lured an actual pedo and had them arrested.

I was a b-slur through the 00s and I dunno if anyone would say it was "good," but it was definitely less irony poisoned.

Requires a phone number

It's just an email based user ID, I have multiple Discord accts and never used a phone number with it

fak u (it's been so long)

gooby pls

"AI" is always reserved for the latest tech in this space, the previous gens are called what they are. LMMs will be what these are called after a new iteration is out.

Begs the question of how you're substantiating any claims if you can't trust any information to base it on. Use a critical US report on China's economy if you want. A granular distribution of GDP by economic sector is the data you're asking about, a legit resource will serve you better than a random internet commenter. You'll find their service economy is where the percentage share of growth has been wherever you look.

In 1971 there was an oil crisis that put an end to the post-war consensus in the US, and the deindustrialization that followed was a shift to a more professional service financial economy. In China Mao had died and the Cultural Revolution was over. Deng opened up the country to capitalism through a Soviet-style manufacturing push and the creation of economic zones. So we have this relationship between the world's largest consumer economy and the world's largest manufacturing economy up to the present day. China's economic growth currently is outpacing other developed countries post-covid, and they represent a greater percentage of worldwide economic growth than the US, they have the single largest share of the world's economic growth.

People in the US who criticize China for polluting is incredibly ironic in this context. US capital interests are more than happy to exploit China's manufacturing sector, and China takes the blame for all the things that brings with it.

Still the newest LTS and CIP version which is classic Debian longevity, 6.1 is supported to 2033.

Kind of why I run Debian, preference for stability over newness.

Yeah sometimes with this self hosting stuff, it's like wow it organizes my music, lets me play it, makes it available to other devices... so does my operating system.