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

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[–]Kuasocto 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 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 -  (2 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 -  (1 child)

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?