I made a web page, but I can't get a single user. People these days won't budge from their current sites even if they hated them. My guess is that they wanna be where everyone else is and where the content flows nonstop to keep their brains busy.This dynamic effectively kills any and all attempts to break free from disgusting Big Tech sites and their gimmicks.It's so frustrating. The only thing stopping us from being free is ourselves. We're presented a FOSS web and we go "hmmm I dunno, maybe I'll give it a shot when it's bigger than Tiktok"I have two questions for you dopaminefags:1. Why is the large userbase and the nonstop brainrot so important? Why can't you live without it and get your kicks from knowing you're doing something better?2. Why exactly can't you use two sites simultaneously? Tiktok in one tab, FOSStok in the other. If the post rate is slow, it wont even consume any of your time to post there once a day. If everyone did that, FOSStok would grow and eventually replace Tiktok.
Corporations gave us a prison so comfy that we were like "okay sign me up"People these days are more obedient and soulless than ever. They just accept everything.When I look at the modern human all I can see is a machine that accepts and adapts.>genders no longer exist<accepted >you're now an app slave<accepted>you will no longer have jobs or money<accepted>you will not get a gf<accepted
Who the fuck says home page
>>83098549if i was into foss social media i would just use mastodon or lemmy instead of whatever your schizo shit is
>>83098657Mastodon isn't user friendly. I'm a Linux FOSS fag and one look at Mastodon and I wasnt interestedWhat I think we need is an exact copy of modern social media but without the abuse and capitalism.
>>83098666well i guess you're wrong since people use mastodon but nobody uses your shit
>>83098673People clearly dont use the sites that they should be using. They simply have shit taste as demonstrated in the opening post.You're a lazy dopamine addicted pig who is part of the problem.
>>83098689the fact that mastodon is more popular than your shit proves you wrong. it's not a major corporation and doesn't have big capital behind it. I personally would never use a tiktok clone or tiktok because i don't want to become a dopamine addicted pig
>>83098549does microsoft even have any major websites? why do they get so much traffic? and wtf is yahoo getting traffic for in 2025
>>83098702>the fact that mastodon is more popular than your shit proves you wrongUnfair comparison, because Mastodon has been advertised aggressively for what, 10 years? Even Elon Musk knows about it.The link to my site hasnt been shared anywhere and people dont know it exists. The comparison would be fair if both sites had been published simultaneously and shared on the same platforms.Also, the notion that FOSS platforms should compete against one another for popularity is retarded.I dont know why you retards always think there should only be one website. Like, fucking one. Imagine having one website.
>>83098722just read your post again and think about it.>WAHHHHH IT'S IMPOSSIBLE FOR A FOSS WEBSITE TO GET KNOWN BECAUSE EVERYONE IS ADDICTED TO THE EVIL CORPORATION WEBSITES>MASTODON DOESN'T COUNT CAUSE UHHHH.... I FOUND THE UI UGLY
>>83098729You said Mastodon was bigger than my site, we never talked how big. Mastodon isnt big. Literally nobody uses it. Still, it has a larger userbase than my site. These arent mutually exclusive.And yes, the UI is a nightmare and offputting. My site is like Reddit but without the capitalism.
>>83098739so it's like lemmy but worse?
>>83098729Also what exactly is your purpose in this thread?Why are you here, and what are you trying to accomplish?You sound like you have an issue with something but I dont know what you could possibly have against freeing the Internet.Are you so brainwashed you're defending Big Tech by trying to silence the FOSS minority?
>>83098752The average phone poster will never adopt Mastodon, Matrix, lemmy or whatever these Stallman types put out.
>>83098760i see your posts here regularly. I find people like you really obnoxious how you ignore the existing foss projects for really dumb reasons and waste your time making a shitier version that you're convinced is better just because you wrote it yourself, and then cry that nobody uses it
>>83098779Like I said before, diversity in the FOSS realm is not a bad thing.When they made Mastodon, they acted like we were done, like one FOSS attempt was enough.It's the opposite, we should spawn as many FOSS attempts as humanly possible so that we drown out Big Tech. Hell, let's make 200 shit-ass attempts at the same thing so that people learn it's the new norm and not a one-off. Something like Mastodon shouldn't be a one-off. Just like Linux distros, there needs to be an active community.
>>83098805ok well if you think that go do it but i'm really tired of seeing your whining posts can you at least use a trip so i can filter you
>>83098808You never answered the question in the opening post though.Why cant you lurk on every worthwhile project instead of just picking one? I bet 100% of your Internet use happens on 4chan.It doesn't require much to support new projects by checking them once a day.
>>83098817i won't use your website because you're annoying. if someone who isn't annoying makes a website i might check it out, and i actually have started posting on a tiny foss altchan recently
>>83098549IF I JOIN UR WEBSITE WILL YOU CHECK OUT MY COOL HOMEPAGE ONCE ITS FINISHEDI PROMISE YOY WILL LIKE IT
I, too, wish it still were the 90s. But it's a bit like opening up a cathode ray tube degaussing service store in 2025 and complaining that you've not had a single customer in 6 months. If you're gonna do some cool shit for the sake of doing cool shit, then just do it and be happy that you did it. Don't be a whiny bitch about it.If you want to build something that people are actually gonna use, then do your research and figure out what people actually need that they don't already have.
>>83098824>i won't use your website because you're annoying.This is such a 2025 zoomer dopamine screecher thing to say. You're used to admins smiling and sucking up to you like Nintendo marketers in Japan.Most "nice" admins are only "nice" because they lie to you and it's their job to lure people in with a smile.It's all bullshit. I'd use a site run by me. What you also fail to understand is that code guys and smile guys are two different people. Do you think Stallman would make a nice admin? Of course for the sake of the argument you will say "yes", because you're only here to piss me off and be an annoying needy faggot, but in reality you wouldn't. You think he is pretentious.
>>83098824>i won't use your website because you're annoyingWhat value do you yourself add to a website?You just want this, want that, require this, need that.You think the Internet is a free fun machine where admins exist to provide you with endless gratification for free.You're the annoying and needy one. Tiktok has given you SO MUCH dopamine that it has ramped your expectations up too high.Even in this thread you've contributed nothing to anything. You just whine and demoralize.I dont want you on my website anyway. Keep generating money for 4chan owner.
>>83098998>what people actually need that they don't already have.What they need is a non-profit social media.They dont understand that they need this
>>83098549You can't just let anyone use it. Facebook got popular because signups were gated behind .edu emails at first. There has to be some element of "you can't get in" that makes people want to try to get in.
>>830985491. Engagement with others IS why people get on social media. Ask yourself if people would go to McDonald's if they didn't serve any food.2. We've been doing that for years with 4chan vs slowchans and the slowchans still don't get off the ground bc they're so unengaging to use, despite being better than this chan in quite a many measures. If there's engagement, people will push past quite a lot of negatives.Normies are not FOSS activists, they're progressive activists. They joined BlueSky out of activism and protest. Normies don't care about what's under the hood as long as the vehicle gets them there. If cars required that normies know the basic workings of the engine and be able to do tune ups and oil changes, they'd all be riding horses and complaining about all the shit in the road.I'm sorry if that's all bad news. I hope your project works out and we all ride into a future that respects our freedums.
