what the fuck happened to commies, accelerationist trannies, gnostic schizos, failed poets, waah waah pessimists, cultural theory arm chairs fags, incels, chuddhists/vedanta jeets, christcucks, nazioids, basedence/woo-woofags? i dunno lads somethings is fucking missing. i use to see eternal marx, incel literature, pessimist and christcuck threads. what the fuck happened to them? they made this place more fun.
>>24713969Every board is down in population, the hack convinced people to leave permanently, and there's a noticeable uptick in bots and AI posts. That's just how it be.
http://byzantinus.net/
>>24713969i wonder how many anons took their schticks to elon twitter where you can write the same shit but get paid.
>>24713969/lit/ culture stays more or less the same, the topics shift with the years.>I used to see eternal marx, incel lit, pessimist, and christcuck threadsWhen I first started posting here (like 2012?) the topics were the meme trilogy, Harold Bloom memes and quotes, David Benatar, Tao Lin and alt-lit, with some marx and christcuck threads thrown in. Five or six years ago /lit/ wouldn't shut the fuck up about Girard.
>>24713981>call it "symposium">no shota board
stop sliding the board with frog threads and chatgpt first year philosophy and maybe you'll see
>>24713975>Every board is down in population,we are literally at 2010 levels of users. Its incredible how this site has died.
>>24713993the web is unironically dying. From now on only Instagram and Twitter and Amazon (all apps) remain.
>>24713975>>24713993where's good, reliable 4chan user data? are you guys guessing or is there some janny page that shows usage rates
>>24713984>Five or six years ago /lit/ wouldn't shut the fuck up about Girard.And accelerationism and Ernest Becker
>>247140064stats dot io
Clearly everyone moved on with their lives graduated, got a job, started a family and just got so engaged in life they stopped caring about this place. Soon, before you know it, it will happen to all of you too!
Good
>>24713969no effort posts anymore, plus the faggy /lit/ magazine attempts all drained the board and people migrated with them to discords to jack each other off
>>24713981Lol, can't post anything, every attempt is met with a "Status: Error!" on two separate browsers.
>>24713975Everything gets shittier and shittier. I can't wait for the 2030s. The world will be a gray blob.
>>24713969Literature is dead, and board usage is dead.
>>24714032did you forget to get an access code?
>>24714051Unfortunately this
everyone is jerking off or being performative on social media
>>24714076Turns out I was being stupid with my cookie autodeletion plugin and forgot to exempt the site.
I’m still here, but I’m dead on the inside. I have nothing to say, and when I think I do, I can’t find the words I’m looking for. Now I’m mostly just browsing.
>>24713969kys
>>24713969Ok?? What do you want me to do about it?
>>24713993>>24713993>>24713997>>24714023>>24714046Pessimists face wall. This is actually a good thing.
>>24714109I browse /lit/ for these brutally honest posts
I think lit is like 50% indian now lol
>>24713969>the worst posters ever are no longer shitting up the boardI would say this is a bad thing but sadly all that is left is people that are more normie like, with a few rightist schizos like me.
>>24714109Same. I have become a lurker because there is rarely any discussion worth participating in. I've seen it all before and nothing really happens.
>>24713969It was never alive. The board was created way too late so it never got to create a culture.
>>24714199/lit/ sticky says otherwise
>>24714213Stickies were a mistake from that like 5 month period moot paid attention to the site before he sold it,
>>24714137>rightist schizoNo need to repeat yourself, it's redundant
>>24714109>>24714140>haha yeah>haha yeah /lit/ sucks haha yeah>haha yeah there's nothing good haha yeah>haha yeah I don't have anything to say haha yeah >haha yeah I don't contribute anything haha yeah>haha yeah I just whine haha yeah>haha yeah it's all bad though haha yeahRope immediately
>>24714239The words just aren’t there, man. I keep trying to find them, but they’re gone. Every sentence I try to put together sounds awkward at best. There’s nothing I can say anymore.
DIE FROG DIE
>>24713975Every board is filled with sophistic propagandizing kike shills. They're strangling it to death on purpose
>>24714256rude...
>>24713969Besides the occasional rubbernecking, why would I spend any time or effort talking to jewish shills and retards when there are far superior Chans which rangeban Israel and have much more intelligent discussions.
>>24714415/lit/ remains king
>>24714013Except for the 20% that roped
>>24714234You're just afraid of stepping out of your comfort zone.
>>24714415Such as?
I just use archives by searching the book I want to see a discussion on.
>>24714076I have it, but where do I enter it?
>>24714481Anon... there is a "Login" button on the top right
>>24714490Thanks.I thought it would autoprompt you when you clicked on a board and thread.
>>24714461but i don't just want to read discussions. i want to smoke fools with my facts and logic.
>>24714506smoke me right now then nigga
>>24714137remember to take your meds today
>>24714308Why doe
>>24714556Don’t need meds when I’m the janitor in an insane asylum
>>24713969tf are you talking about? it's exactly like it's always been newfag
>>24714878https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Change_blindness
>>24714907psychology is fake and gae
>>24714911>"Doesn't look like anything to me"
>>24713969An intense political environment has made people incurious. Philosophies are now being adopted downstream of political positions rather than the other way around. This carries a risk in exploring different philosophical movements because it might inadvertently cause a compromise on politics which have become more fundamental in some way. It's not specifically 4chan that's at fault, the entire internet is now like this.
>>24713981>403 Forbidden
>>24715015India and China are rangebanned
>>24715618Korea and Israel too
>>24713969I guess I'd still consider this my homeboard, but with how slow it's gotten and the overwhelming spam of Nietzsche and Dostoyevsky threads by newfag broccoli heads, I mostly shizopost on /x/ now. A lot of philosophy already reaches eerie and schizo conclusions (at least by the standards of naive realism), so I often find better conversation there than among the /pol/ migrants and pop-existentialists that infest this board.
the other day, /g/ caught a bunch of bots. across multiple boards you could see almost the exact same posts, completely irrelevant to whatever thread they were posted in. only a couple of words were changed, but even the formatting was exactly the same. hiro did a really good job, he made the site so bad people left forever. which is exactly what the japanese posters warned us about.
>>24716013>the other day, /g/ caught a bunch of bots.Holy shit. Link to the thread?
>>24713969People stopped reading?
>>24713981I had an access code but deleted it after attempting to deinternet myself. Oh well
>>24713969Cycles of decay and rebirth. A harsh winter will let the young buds in the spring grow strong, and when summer comes, their fruit will be enjoyed by all. Sometimes a pruning is necessary, there is no better or worse, just what there is and over time it will improve if you apply yourself consistently.
I haven't been here in a while and I couldn't help but notice Tao Lin's disturbing absence from the catalog
>>24713969generational change (zoomers reading less and also with shitty taste)and also political and AI slopbtw incel and pessimist literature isn't bad
>>24716048I can give you another if you want
>>24716157Sales pitch me.
>>24716157I'm tempted, but I am trying to decrease screen-time/internet usage, and joining more communities will not help me accomplish that. Thanks for the effort, but I must decline.
>>24716168text board, so no images to distract you. The purpose of the site is to discuss the humanities. Invite-only to prevent brigading, trolling, and bots. No captchas!
>>24716288Hmmm. On one hand, I'm a master of many boards, and I have two humanities degrees. On the other, it seems like a very small community and my two-ish decades of instant gratification may not translate well given the size and scope. Like why wont this be another Chan that dies in 6 months? I wish you well, but I must ponder.
>>24715015>>24715618>>24715665I am also 403 Forbidden, is the United Kingdom also rangebanned?
>>24716310My hope is that as the web becomes ever more enshittified and an ocean of bots and chaos, byzantinus.net will be a rather serene refuge of order where people can discuss the humanities, local cultures, traditions, etc, in peace. It being invite-only makes it more resistant to the degeneration of open spaces, because it prevents drive-by trolling and low-effort-posting, since one could lose their login code or be banned for inviting many trolls. I do not tolerate offtopic or low effort post, you have 4chan for that.I know that the conditions do not make it conductive for very casual light discussion, and that will hurt adoption, but I think it is a worthy tradeoff. Hosting and dns are cheap so I can run it for years.
>>24716331the UK is not rangebanned, it may be a bug. I will look into it.
>>24716337I tried with VPN set to the USA and still got the same error.
>>24715665based. I will now sign up for your website.One moment. How about Canada? I hope you excluded them too.
>>24713969Nothing happened to any of those types of people they are all here and I see their posts, argue with them, have discussions with people that can be categorised as any of the above on a daily basis; they are just here in fewer numbers.
>>24716360Try using a vpn with a european or asian ip (except china/india/korea). I will look into the ip-to-country lookup database bug later.
>>24716361see >>24716367
>>24716367No luck with either, just same old 403 forbidden.
>>24716445you are acceassing using https, right? http doesn't work.
>>24713969tranny jannies delete everything they disagree with
>>24716335So, I was able to post in a thread, but threads themselves are impossible to start. Status: Error! whenever I try to make a thread on /kino/, been that way for a couple days, now.
>>24713969I didn't read your rambling because you're a frogposter, and as a rule of thumb, you niggers never have nothing of value to say never, but here's this>/lit/ is dying If i have to take a guess, that's because reading has become a somewhat fringe hobbie or endevour. People who actually have devotion to reading what they like just don't waste time with pseuds discussing "philosophy", "religion" or "self help" or whatever late grifting come across except for the occasional knee jerk reaction to shit and sage on it. As a result, bots, fags and glowies alike ignore this board almost completely, and shills are at minimum as well. The rest of the boards are active because lesser mediums get more attention, but it's mostly because of the current state of affairs in the world and their impact of them; novels doesn't get this much traction because the attention it's no longer there, it's in the visual, more retard friendly stuff. I would say that the only bastion on the web for the truly dedicated to reading and writing at this point is pic related. Everything else sucks.
>>24716450kek, that was it. Incredibly stupid of me. Thanks for your help.
>>24716450>>24716509Can I get a code?
>>24713969>/lit/ is dying/lit/ has been dead since the 2017 Jordan Peterson newfag deluge, it has been nothing but a gay simulacrum of what it once was since then.
>>24714118Jewish
>>24713969the nature of the board means it will never be popular, besides Philosophy/classics the range of material is too wide, and reading is too time consuming, to ever have the robust kind of dialogue that more easily consumable media like MU and TV brings. People will post an interesting book and even reading a solid 1-2 hours hours per day, and my current list means I'd get to it 6 months later.People in general are just reading less
>>24716048Go back to deinterneting. This is a recommendation as a fellow human being
>>247165148DD1F216DBE828DD0FBD29EFD8E6EC4A
>>24716469I just fixed some database tables, try now. All boards should be working.
>>24716485Could not agree moreWords and shit... nerd-coded
cant speak for others but i advanced in my /lit/ knowledge to the point i can't have conversations with other people here because no one else knows as much as me about my topics
>>24713969I can only guess moderation is on overdrive due to 4chan being in the lawsuit against the UK.There used to be a Dragonball thread on /a/ 24/7 with schizos and shitposters but now it's a wasteland, anyone tries posting and half the thread is deleted posts.People are either banned or driven away.
>>24716582Yah, I have to keep the project up. It is better that way. I know the librarians are tired of my small talk, but sacrifices have to be made.
r/TheDeprogram got banned, so more communist shitposting should be incoming i assume
>>24716738Is reddit being purged after the Kirk shooting?
>>24716758Somewhat, it's odd that they will go after communist subs but not liberal subs celebrating the same thing
>>24716769Probably a 'keeping up appearances' thing
>Daily active user count still in the mid-two hundred thousands like it's been every day for fucking foreverYou guys are just dumb. Only thing that's changed since the hack is the jannies/mods have become just that much more paranoid/despotic. The day-to-day site-wide population is the same.
