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fedibant site get better material tard

I left 4chan because it was full of bad posters. I don't want 4chan idiots coming here.

>>GIVUNNDZ I assume there to be an unanimous agreement to never, under no circumstances even mention fchan on 4chan.

>>L8K7R2KO I've already done that before because somebody was saying that federated imageboards would "solve the alt chan problem".

>>E9G8S4NI From now on, I'm just gonna talk about it to people I like, rather than talk about it on a public forum. I don't have any internet friends so I don't have anyone to talk about this website with.

i talked about it near post8channers and it was horrible

If you want a super sekrit club, open federation is a bad fit. Gatekeep sites, not protocols. For one thing they are much more easily gatekept.

>>063MXW90 Although, this site doesn't have to have open federation if the owner doesn't want it to.

Anyway, you all seem to be relying on security through obscurity. Whereas my mind jumped to something like a password to enter. Take a look at this idea (could be implemented in a centralised or closed-federated way): https://peerchan.net/p2p/thread/9.html https://8chan.moe/t/res/12859.html This is real gatekeeping.

>>063MXW90 I think it's better if we looked for people we thought were good posters, rather than try and get as many people as possible from any website. Advertising to groups of people who you want on your site seems like a good idea. If you think having 4channers on this website is a good idea, then you can advertise it to them if you'd like. I stopped posting on 4chan all together, so I won't advertise there, but you can if you want to.

>>063MXW90 >>BY56FQUE you better be baiting

>>NXA652E6 Just telling the truth

>>M23LTHDL a 10% truth with a federated imageboard and who you are speaking with try again in a month

>>TFQXS42B (OP) Do NOT let 4channers know that other image boards exist for love of god 4chan is a containment zone for banned redditors and shillbots

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>>TFQXS42B (OP) I mean, I just got here from 4chan's /g/, just checking out the site. Federated imageboards are an interesting topic, and I wanted to create my own based on Nostr, but stopped due to lack of motivation. So, I am currently just looking for other imageboards to explore. Also, the captcha is pretty nice. A lot less shittier than 4chan's captcha.

>>DB57UZ0E someone checked out the board because of me! Im honored :3 How are you liking Fchan? Persoanlly I find it's really fucking cool so far, and the fact it can evne be run behind i2p and still federate is so hecking cool. I kinda wanna run my own personal instance behind i2p someday for full anonymity.

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>>91Z7BQ77 It's good, haven't used it much so I can't really complain about things (yet). It being darknet friendly is a big bonus, I am thinking of redirecting a lot of sites to their onion/eepsite domains (if possible) and having JS disabled on them. Also, 12 mb upload size? That's a lot. Cheers for letting me know about this site anon, I think I will be a regular visitor :)

>>F1PKKBLF It's also quite easy to self host, all it'd take is a raspnberry pi :)

I only just found out about fchan today when it was posted on /g/. I think y'all might need better marketing, since it's not even the first altchan to come to people's minds when 4chan is down or otherwise having problems. I'll say this much though. If anyone ever hosts an instance with boards dedicated to loli or shota content, I'll add that instance to a guide I maintain for people looking for that kinda stuff. That guide has a section for altchan sites, although currently it only features 7chan, 8chan, and SturdyChan.

>>8KMYQX7M Based lolisho anon. I'm pretty sure Usagi doesn't do marketing. I found it through aggressively trying to find a Fchannel instance that was up and this is the only one I could find. It would be cool having a dedicated Lolisho instance.

>>TFQXS42B (OP) Most probably don't even know the board is here! For a long time, the main FChannel servers/fchan xyz were down and it looked like the project was in limbo. It will take time but I'm glad usagi is here.

>>KS7W0HA1 Usagi's so pog. I want to host a personal instance behinf Internet 2 Penis and maybe make a tootoral on how to make it :) Or a docker image? (IDK we'd have to have an official project maybe) People hosting their own instance seems like peak 4chins

>>9FQG8CMP The idea of selfhosting and small instances is nice, but the reality of retards and glowies not so much. At one point there were almost a dozen fchan instances, but a persistant csam spam wave cause most to go down. I know for a fact that multiple admins said that was the reason they gave up. Unfortunately, the fediverse has a similar problem. If you throw Pleroma on a cheap VPS and leave registrations open, people will find it and abuse it in ways that will cause legal trouble for you. (Shoutout to Usagi for being quick to delete spam)

>>9L04MDMF Self hosting without I2P seems like a huge risk I'm not willing to take. If I wanted to make a public instnace i'd put it on a VPS with a public mail address so that authorities can be contacted there. Also collaborate with authorities when that shit happens

>>KS7W0HA1 This seems the main reason - I posted fediverse threads on their /g/ and when fchanxyz was up it got interest; i tried to get others to try to create compatible imageboards to test the federation but it didn't go so well for a number of reasons including >>9L04MDMF where csam and other spam became an issue if anything was even slightly popular; alternately, the moment someone tried to deal with it you got the >FREEZEPEACH I THOUGHT THIS WAS DIFFERENT AND YOU HAVE CAPTCHA AND RULES AN I CANT POST CERTAIN THINGS IN EVERY PLACE WAY TO GO HYPOCRITE HURRRR crowd annoying. There's also the issue that many aren't sure the latest maintained fork of the codebase - usagi's dev seems to be one of the few that is up to date with their fork now, but its very hard to know where to go if you didn't know about this place an many only knew about the original fchan/fchannel0. Its good to have someone maintaining a version to help with security issues and the like, rather than everything being based on a variant from 1-3 years ago that, if vulnerabilities are present, aren't likely to get fixed en masse. I'm glad that this board is here an seems to have goo features, limited spam, and even stuff like captcha are not too obnoxious; I think lots of people from other imageboards would be interested for that reason. I wouldn't go trying to bring a deluge of random anons here from 4chan, 8kun or the like (especially after the election tourist incursion inundating many boards) but some /g/ posters particularly FOSS/freetard, cyberpunk/privacy, fediverse thread aficionados may be worthwhile posters.

if i spin up an instance will my posts be visible on usagi? any plans for a docker image?

>>HUW6G64P yeah, this board is pretty kewl and actually has a decent captcha (4chinz new captcha is absolutely cancer, 900 seconds to post some bullshit??)