What pisses me off most about the Internet is that people always choose the biggest site / community.
I'm a web dev and nobody adopts my projects because "lol nobody's there"
In 2002 ppl liked small communities. Now people are so goddamn normie they need to feel the presence of 2 billion peers around them at all times or they just break mentally like sugar gliders
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Almost as if, social media is a natural monopoly, and should be regulated as such.
It's because of onions, pussy and someone allowed normies to use internet.
What's your project?
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>social media is a natural monopoly
Literally all big tech founders have famillial connection in DC and intelligence agencies.
Also all big tech companies, have billion dollar contracts with the DoD, and a bunch of "retired" spooks have fake jobs in those companies.
It's not even secret, it's all public knowledge.
wow no posts in this thread?
well, guess I can leave one before leaving lol
small communities are still around, it just takes time to build one. but instead of looking for feedback on your projects you assume it's everyone elses fault for their failings and just come here to complain.
i would like to know what is your project name is it
free and open source
Just be honest with you and accept that your products just sucks.
In 2002 there were almost no normies on the internet. They truly ruin everything they touch.
I am glad Steve Jobs is dead, if only that happened in 2006 there would have been no iPhone, this device alone is the biggest contributor to the downward spiral that happened to the internet.
You are right. The iPhone was purposely designed to be as simple as possible to allow the consumption of social media content anytime, anywhere, by anyone. It's important to note that in 2006 normies found computers "too difficult" to use, as well as not fashionable. The iPhone changed that, because it turned Internet use from nerd shit into a lifestyle. This was the biggest mistake.
Great product, but also great at fricking up an entire civilization.
What are your metrics for sucking? People seem to think that if my soc med platform has lots of free porn and memes, it's a good platform.
It's not ready to be shared on IQfy just yet. Last time ppl made my server time out.
>complain about no one using your project
>refuse to share your project when people ask about it
are you moronic?
>Last time ppl made my server time out.
You have more pressing matters to deal with than muh popularity then.
Did you diy your server? Because any modern server I know of can handle several concurrent connections without issues.
>In 2002 there were almost no normies on the internet
more than half of Americans were online in 2002. what's changed is *how* they use the internet.
>nobody adopts my projects because "lol nobody's there"
Why do you expect motivated strangers to adopt your project instead of starting their own?
Hell, why did you even put your project up for adoption?
That's because your project is shit and you expect a hundred people to use it. Small communities back then didn't even have a hundred users. I remember using a bulletin board in 2004 which had 7 users including myself and we posted there almost daily for 3 years and it was the best community ever. You can still easily find something like that but let me guess it's too small for you?
FRICKING moronS SHUT THE FRICK UP
PEOPLE USE SOCIAL WEBSITES TO TALK TO OTHER PEOPLE. IF THERE ARE NO USERS ON A SOCIAL SITE THEN IT'S WORTHLESS
>b-but my project deserves a chance!
HOW IS YOUR STUPID FRICKING PROJECT DIFFERENT FROM ANY OF THE OTHER 100000000 STUPID FRICKING PROJECTS AND ANALOGOUS WEBSITES? WHY WOULD ANYONE USE YOUR BUGGY, FEATURE INCOMPLETE AND EMPTY SHITTY KNOCKOFF OF A BETTER SITE?
People might give your site a shot. But if you have nothing unique to offer, don't have a theme and a reason for existence, why would people choose to stay?
But the most uncomfortable truth is that normalgays that stick to big sites are not an impediment for non-normalgays to form small communities. So the fact that small sites struggle indicates that no-one in the world gives a shit about them, and even supposed "non-normalgays" and whiny b***hes like OP flock to the big sites
>b-but I'm different!
You're on IQfy, the facebook of imageboards. I hope you're ready to register that email of yours to post here soon
>People might give your site a shot. But if you have nothing unique to offer, don't have a theme and a reason for existence, why would people choose to stay?
You know what's more insufferable than
besides your insufferable ranting? It's the normies who are afflicted with Stockholm syndrome. They get screwed by big sites like Youtube but still continue to not only patronize them but paypig for them as well.
You sound like a sugar glider who wilts away without 2 million other sugar gliders around him
>ANAL
huehuehue
>In 2002 ppl liked small communities
"ppl" never liked small communities, they always gravitated towards large networks due to the network effect.
Yet you are on the largest Chan. Curious.
Someone post that image of that guy who is terrified of going for a walk in the park because the outdoors doesn't have as many people in it as twitter or fediverse stuff.
I guess you mean this?
Least mentally ill non-binary
it's called the network effect and it's not because people are normies, it's because people are lazy.
you might think you're above it, but think: when you want to know what day Jimmy Carter was elected on, do you quickly check Wikipedia because it's easy or do you check some random guy's neocities where he incidentally mentions the information while explaining the Billy Beer joke in the simpsons because you refuse to use any bigger source?
>What pisses me off most about the Internet is that people always choose the biggest site / community.
why are you posting this on IQfy (the biggest imageboard) and not any other tech related chans? gay
a small community needs to fill a niche to get anyone, like some kind of common overarching topic that the site caters to
if i want to talk about nothing in particular, i come here
yea, i get that you can talk about large topics on many large sites, but what i'm saying is that making a nothing forum isn't going to attract anyone easily, people need a reason to start something
i've never been a social type, IQfy is all i've ever really used for the most part, but the last time i used a forum for more than just reading existing comments was one dedicated to eeepc users, after i got an eeepc, i found it quite useful. IQfy is good for one-off questions, but a dedicated forum keeps things more consistent and permanent, everything is about the thing you use the site for, so it's easy to find things even if you don't know what you're looking for
basically, figure out what you want people to use it for, and set it up to be uniquely useful for that purpose
obligatory
It's called the network effect and it's a basic economic phenomenon born directly from fundamental human psychology. You can't change it unless you either strip away choice directly from the end user (which would make you an authoritarian nutjob), or use government force to regulate companies specifically to invalidate consumer demand (which is called socialism, and provably does not work).
In conclusion, cry harder b***h homie.
>you either strip away choice directly from the end user (which would make you an authoritarian nutjob), or use government force to regulate companies specifically to invalidate consumer demand (which is called socialism, and provably does not work).
Where's the distinction between these two points?
not them but my reading is: in the authoritarian case the government assigns you a product (so for operating systems, the government might force you to use a mac.) while in the socialist case the government would regulate what companies could sell. (so they might restrict how many copies of windows microsoft can sell, but you'd be free to choose whether to use windows or macOS - assuming you could find a copy of either.)
>not them
>them
didn't read, kys
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i hope they enjoy that i've been kind enough to repay the favor by replying to their post in this one. 🙂
>I'm a web dev and nobody adopts my projects because "lol nobody's there"
use AI to fake people being there until real people join
this is how you end up with a dead internet. I hate you so much for even having this thought cross your mind.
The internet is already dead
That's actually the most legit way to get any discussion forum / website off the ground these days because normies demand that your site be full of people and content from day one
I don't care, total normie death
actual legit way would be to create discord guild then once it has enough users pull the rug by telling everyone to use your forum instead
I don't even like small IQfy threads unless I think it has huge potential, the attention span is just not there to wait 8 hours for one post
>the attention span is just not there to wait 8 hours for one post
It was in 2008.
These issues didnt exist then. You werent expecting to be entertained every second.
>These issues didnt exist then.
True but not necessarily for the reason you're implying. Back then there were so many sites with so much content that it didn't matter if any one individual thread took 8 hours to get a reply because there was always something new to discover, something new to learn or you just went the frick outside for a few hours because the internet was a way to escape reality, not desperately force it down everyone's throats. Nowadays there isn't any interesting content which is why normalgays have an 8 second attention span and need constant validation.
Not true, I was already years into an extremely serious world of warcraft addiction. The difference is that I wasn't expecting website posts to be my constant fast paced entertainment themselves, rather just something to check in on once a day or so.
Just populate it with bots at the start?
>What pisses me off most about the Internet is that most people do what most people do
cool story bro
Unironically, find a topic that is extremely niche, and use your platform to focus on that niche. My personal favourite thing in the whole world is pop music from communist countries; create a board for that and you'll be the only one. But you'll need to make some posts of your own to get it started. Alternatively, take the easy route and pick something pornographic. I'm sure lots of people would post on giantessanalinsertionchan.org or womenbeingsentencedincourtchan.net.
The smaller the niche the harder it is to find people who are into it.
You'll probably have better luck creating your own niche community within a larger platform, for example by making a Facebook group or a subreddit, since everyone who wants a community is on there, and will likely never find out about your website. Especially if the niche is so small that its enthusiasts don't even talk to each other, so you get little to no word of mouth spread.
This is really most of what happened. The big sites contain smaller communities within them. You can find your niche slovenian 100% rye sourdough discard recipes community with 5 posters, but it's a subreddit and not its own forum.
People want/need instant gratification for the shit they sling into the world because their brains have been fried. With small communities you may have to wait a while before you get a response to something you post. The bigger the community, the faster you're likely to get a response.
That's also why we're on IQfy btw. This is the twitter of the politically incorrect side of the web.
everyone looks like a certified douchebag in that image.
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what's wrong with smoking?
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>What pisses me off most about the Internet is that people always choose the biggest site / community.
Yet you use the biggest imageboard on the internet. Curious!
bro is the one on the left the female version of tom myspace? I can't unsee it
You're supposed to do like reddit and populate your shit with bots until it takes off