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I feel like this site has been dying over the last few weeks
>>32101Barely a few hundread users active at a time. Probably a thousand max taking into account the VPN switching. I'd like to imagine this is what we're like (picrel is a crowd of a thousand), still feels dwarfing compared to 4chan numbers.
Gotta wonder if theres any hope to grow or if this will just remain to be a small counterculture to die out in time. Its been nice, but its barely accomplished anything. We don't even have a wikipedia page and no media coverage or freakouts.
>>32196“There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.”
― Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
I think the worst blunder in this site's history was when oldBO suddenly took the board too seriously and handed out bans left-and-right to everyone who didn't share their special snowflake ideology, putting an end to the early era where a good chunk of the userbase had diverse ideologies and - more importantly - wore ideology flags. Using flags in that way was both a great way to stimulate ideological discussion and provide context for a given post, and also a novel way of using imageboards in-general (more anonymous than thread IDs, tripcodes, or nationality flags, but still with a single public identifying mark.) That could've been our unique selling point, but once it was kneecapped flags have become an essentially vestigial feature, a way for one or two users to tripflag.
It lead to and meshed perfectly with "made by x gang" - if you want to understand the depths of the board's failure to meet its potential, look at the popularity of that meme and then cross compare it with the popularity of the board itself. /leftypol/ was once culturally relevant in a certain segment of the internet and culturally vital on its own board, and this could have - and for a period did - lead to a positive feedback loop of relevance bringing in more people, which lead to more OC, which in turn lead to more relevance. Now it's done, now you can forget making an image macro - I'd barely think it was worth making this post if I wasn't in love with the sound of my own voice.
yes, yes, being on 8chan helped a lot because it brought in /pol/, but "made by X gang" clearly worked better in the context of /leftypol/-to-/leftypol/ posting, rather than /pol/-rading-leftypol>>32416>>32419While the right has some overall structural advantages (it's much easier to use rightism to justify base selfishness, cruelty, etc, leftism is handicapped by a certain sincere belief in bettering life for all) you should keep in mind that it's also simply astroturfed. 4chan is mainly administered by RapeApe, who gets paid $4,000 and is on the record as pushing /pol/ shit.
>>32418The imageboard is only a dying format because its yoked to 4chan and -chan culture in general, in particular, because of the insular ideological belief in not bringing in new people. "Waah, Imageboards are dying" is cope for failure to keep one alive, like a doctor going "Ah, well everyone has their time to go…" because they fucked up and killed a child.
>>32423The internet is absolutely full of people who posture as left, with the average Twitter leftist probably no more fradulent than the average /leftypol/ leftist
by which I mean you're both poseurs, yes. The internet is a fairly useless tool for actual organising, but "left-wing discussion board for entertainment purposes" is a trivial ask. Leftism has a big advantage over liberalism in the current sphere: Liberalism must pretend to be serious and realistic, to be the "adult in the room", leftism allows you to show off that you care about others while still having fun by grabbing some lib's post and telling them Stalin would've had them all shot. It lets you play culture wars without being
fucking boring (liberals) or
fucking lame (rightists), with an added little bonus of letting you be as intellectual or anti-intellectual as you like.
>>32425Great post.
>Liberalism must pretend to be serious and realistic, to be the "adult in the room", leftism allows you to show off that you care about others while still having fun by grabbing some lib's post and telling them Stalin would've had them all shot. It lets you play culture wars without being fucking boring (liberals) or fucking lame (rightists), with an added little bonus of letting you be as intellectual or anti-intellectual as you like.It might not be noticeable to a lot of us, but the majority of people are apolitical, whether it's on the internet or in real life most recognize that liberals and other rightists are usually quite incoherent and artificial in their thoughts, a leftist can have a lot of fun and thoughtful conversations with others thanks to this fact as our worldviews are closer to humanity's in general. Even when we have to spend time with an open liberal/rightist, as long as they are more moderate you can usually choose and agree on atleast one thing with them and discuss something, perhaps poke fun at each other and the like, it kind of makes one feel like a centrist despite being a commie, quite ironic.
>>33189no anon, you don't understand: it's
quality over quantity, can't you feel the extra effort that goes into every reply now that threads are slow enough for people to think before posting? PPH isn't important, it's like Stalin said: better fewer, but better!
yes, i'm joking. yes, the bit where I misattribute a lenin quote to stalin is part of the joke. >>33192> if you say anything controversial with a flag, it will begin to damn all future posters of that flag.There's people who will start fights over totally innocuous things based on flags, and often based on
assumptions about what someone's ideology is even when there's no flags involved.
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