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@PhenomX6 I miss /liberty/ because there was literally no other libertarian imageboard out there. 8chan.moe has one but it's dead. It seems to have been bot-spammed by the same LibertyPatroit bot on the fedi. It was never truly active, even on the original 8chan, but ever since the split, it has never been the same since. Though recently, zzzchan create one, but there are only a few threads right now. Really a fucking shame because all the libertarian discussions online are happening on Telescam which I refuse to sign up for.

Surprisingly, the /leftypol/ bunker seems to be more active that all the /pol/ bunkers combined. They were never on the webring and they outright refused to return to 8kun or be a part of 8moe.

@PhenomX6 Also, Mark's moderation on vch was the absolute worst. He was using an outdated version of vichan (the only PHP imageboard software that supported the webring), and his lack of technical knowledge only contributed to it. If you got banned, all the posts under your IP were deleted, and knowing him some of the bans were of stupid reasons (he actually banned people for necrobumping). He also told people to "tone down the Nazi posting" because he thought that his bunker would also be targeted after what happened to 8chan and the then-recent mass shooting where he was mentioned in the manifesto.

Some anons got so pissed at him that they bot-spammed threads insulting him in retaliation (which was easier since it was running on outdated software). Mark's solution was to put the site behind Cloudflare which broke federation with the webring.

People also didn't like how Mark was quick to jump onto 8kun as soon as it was ready. At that point, most anons agreed that they were better off with the webring which was decentralized as opposed to keeping all their eggs in one basket. Most people moved to Julay, but Julay users were sick of nonstop GamerGate and idpol discussions. They actually wanted to talk about good games and not about how trannies are ruining the industry 24/7.

Eventually, Julay went to shit because the owner regretted adding too many boards which he felt hurt the decentralization of the webring, so he killed a bunch of boards and moved them to different servers, with /v/ and /cow/ being the only major boards still on there. The owner of Julay was working on a project known as Final Solution which was supposed to be the Fediverse of imageboards, but that never materialized.

Most of the smaller boards on the ring had trouble because the owners were inexperienced with servers and hosting. Most of them went to 8chan.moe after it launched, and the userbases have been split ever since.

At least 8moe/v/ seems to actually be gaining users (presumably users who are rediscovering it). Only problem with it is that it's behind Cloudflare and Mark disabled Tor posting on /v/ (the only way to post without CF) because he was fed up with Luciano and niggerpill shitting up threads. (Though this is only a problem if Cloudflare bothers you)

@PhenomX6 Mark ran vch which was on the webring. He only intended to run it until 8kun was ready. Once he shutdown vch, most people went to julay. Eventually Mark had enough of the 8kun rebranding and new policies, wrote an open letter to Jim and Ron, and later got fired. He and Acid launched 8chan.moe which is the closest thing to the original 8chan. 8chan.moe is still pretty active, at least the /v/ board is. All the popular boards on 8chan have (semi)-active alts on either 8moe or any of the webring boards.

Yeah a lot of former 8chan users are on the Fedi now, from what I can tell. Either that or they went to niche forums like RPGCodex. I most of them would rather be on 8chan though, especially with all the nonstop pepe, wojack, and gigachad posts on here. Instances like Poast seem to align more with 4chan than 8chan in terms of culture.

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>Drama is what hurt attempts at bunker imageboards (let alone the CP spam/fedposting that plagues some altboards), and it will hurt attempts at getting friends because they will remember what you did to them last year.

In the case of the 8/v/ alts, most just wanted an excuse to get away from Mark. Others were sick of GamerGate threads taking up most of the activity.

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So KF/Josh released a statement (the attachment) after their latest outage and it's very telling and I'll go into why.

The public statement essentially says that "Alt-Tech" needs to create an alliance against censorship and intimidation, and for a good reason. KF is now essentially in an 8chan situation, but with a few differences.

The whole reason KF has had issues staying up when everyone else online has moved the fuck on is because of a certain ex-Google employee with a "consent accident" named Liz that everyone has nicknamed "dong gone", who now works at a tech startup. Said employee has been trying really hard to scrub his antics off the internet, including harassing KF with a @google.com email address on behalf of someone else, the "consent accident", and a HackerNews comment alleging he was close to open pedos.

In a way, it's very similar to 8chan and Fred's crusade to eradicate imageboards from the internet (complete with sanitizing aspects the past) but there's a few key differences; but the important one is Fred was ex-8chan and did it out of petty revenge (and cozying up with generic woke furries), Liz kept on poking the bear. Many of the same tactics are at play, from media hit pieces to harassing the right people.

Anyhow, anywhere KF goes Liz will harass the shit out of the people behind the site, from "girl talk" early in the morning to going after family members. When that fails, he'll use the Sleeping Giants/similar activist trick of making companies move hosts to pressure them into dropping KF.

So what Josh calls for is an alliance of Alt-Tech companies to find a datacenter that supports them and lets them host. Aside from the fact that this can very well be a single point of failure or asking to get hacked by some skid wanting to make a name for himself in the left (this is exactly why Epik was targeted and why some have said we shouldn't centralize on using only BuyVM), there's one other problem: KF literally doesn't have many allies.

When your site goes around pissing off everyone in groups on the internet that might give a shit about your issues or support you, they're not going to care. They're going to want your site to go down too and they won't care because they'll think you deserved it. A lot of the reasons why tech libertarians were willing to host fringe Neo Nazi websites back in the day is because they weren't personally going after them.

Which is the #1 takeaway from the KF thing. You want to have allies online, not enemies, and you want to be as drama free as possible. Drama is what hurt attempts at bunker imageboards (let alone the CP spam/fedposting that plagues some altboards), and it will hurt attempts at getting friends because they will remember what you did to them last year.
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@lanodan Which is why IRC fucking sucks. I wish XMPP MUCs were more popular.

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I've also allowed the changing of the x coordinate where the player character starts.

Not pictured, but I'm also working on an additional enemy. This one lays mines if the player is behind it.

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Work a lot on the level editor. I've added edge tiles, but this caused a problem with the level format because the number of tiles is now in the double digits and I was using two digits in the tile maps. The first determined if the tile was drivable or not and the second was the index of each tile. I had to make the tile maps triple digits now because of that.

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Update:
Sorry I haven't been very active here lately, I've been mostly working on irl stuff. There's some things I want to post for catchup, like the robot girl art. I'm currently working on revising my Vtuber horror comic into a better one-shot comic instead of a series, as well as starting a potential writing project.
(Some other contributors are the instance relocation, baest going down a bunch of times, and me deliberating over stuff related to the future).
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@noyoushutthefuckupdad @coolboymew @Fullmetal2255 For the Odysee channel, instead of a black screen, you should have VTuber avatars talking or something like that.

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