Why do alt news sites use Disqus a very VERY ultra left platform?

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[–]fatman 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (10 children)

really? Doesn't 4chan allow pretty much everything and is still up and even easy to see on search engines?

Everything posted to 4chan is pre-filtered, analyzed heavily, and logged forever. It isn't the wild west anymore. They also delete comments and ban users all the time. Like Disqus.

Sites like 4chan are also a great candidate for implementing parts of the 'dead internet theory'. How do you know you aren't shouting into a void of bots reposting the things that other users posted while they were shouting into their own void of bots?

[–]Kuasocto 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (9 children)

Everything posted to 4chan is pre-filtered, analyzed heavily, and logged forever. It isn't the wild west anymore. They also delete comments and ban users all the time. Like Disqus.

do you even use the site? I dunno, maybe it depends on the board, but the ones I'm using let you see pretty much everything and I didn't notice many bans (mostly using /ic/).

Everything posted to 4chan is pre-filtered, analyzed heavily, and logged forever.

Also that's a pretty big claim, do you have anything to back it up?

Sites like 4chan are also a great candidate for implementing parts of the 'dead internet theory'. How do you know you aren't shouting into a void of bots reposting the things that other users posted while they were shouting into their own void of bots?

since I'm mostly using /ic/ it's pretty easy to tell. that board is rather slow and because it's all about artworks you can tell there's actual people with paper and graphics tablets behind those posts. Maybe /pol/ and /b/ are bot infested revenants, but I rarely use those.

[–]fatman 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (8 children)

Also that's a pretty big claim, do you have anything to back it up?

You are stuck in Plato's cave. It's a minimal amount of effort to do these things for a massive payoff. It was done a long time ago. Every sizeable website does it. They can pick from hundreds of off-the-shelf software packages to do it for them, or they can do it with the standard tools from any Cloud Provider, or they could write the code themselves. Your lack of understanding does not limit them.

Not even getting into what they do on their backend, how about all the ad trackers that load by default when you browse 4chan?

[–]Kuasocto 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

Again, anything at all to backup what you say? Some way to check... literally a single thing you said? I know that server side stuff is only known to the owners, but you say so much about so many things like its obvious knowledge... so it should have obvious proof.

[–]fatman 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

>Not even getting into what they do on their backend, how about all the ad trackers that load by default when you browse 4chan?

[–]fatman 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

Why are you sucking an idealized form of 4chans dick so hard? Is it supposed to be your magic playground where nobody knows what happens?

[–]Kuasocto 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

I just want any sources at all man. I can also make claims about anything in the world without anything to back them up. I'm not saying you're wrong, I'm saying you've shown literally zero links.

[–]fatman 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

You don't have to believe it, now get back to posting about your centaur wife!

[–]Kuasocto 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I never understand why people get super defensive about not giving any links. It's as easy as saying "I don't care/can't be bothered, look up [X] yourself". But instead there's always this "why are you so negative, what's your problem" or more posts saying stuff without any link in sight.

[–]fatman 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

What do you expect, a public link into their private source code?

[–]Kuasocto 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

So you admit you have nothing to back up your claims aside for "its possible"? I mean, when I bring up the mainstream internet bullshit I can find proof of a lot of bs they do even tho their source code isn't publicly known either. None of us has to cite reddit source code to show concrete examples of the bullshit going on that site.