/int/ - International

Anonymity, ephemerality and equality. I can explore multiple aspects of a topic by formulating different responses in different posts (e.g. I can answer as myself in one post and be the "advocatus diaboli" in another) without others tying the text to me personally, posts are not put in a visible hierarchy, and what's been written is gone forever in a while (ever discussion has to be restarted regularly). This means every discussion here is much more pure, diversed and current than on other platforms.

Only at imageboards u can be an edgelord when it comes to shit like schoolshootings etc.

Kill yourself

I have tried to use Reddit but the format isn't very good. With imageboards you can make a thread and then people will all respond to it and you will have the responses all neatly arrayed and who responds to who isn't hard to find either, with Reddit it's a mess and a mess made worse by upvotes and downvotes making responses easier or harder to see based on what people think of it. It's just not good. Also anonymity is a plus too.

>>12067 > Why do you And why do YOU?

>>12071 > Reddit Honestly I have no interest in other's people opinion on how "good" some response is. Every system that supports threads and maybe even upvotes/downvotes gives other people way too much power over what content I get to see in what order or even at all, because things then start to disappear at the bottom of some thread where I don't see it any longer because I don't scroll through the whole page 100 times a day to spot the differences. On an imageboard I can just vaguely remember up to what point I've already read a thread and then continue down to the bottom. It forces me to read every single reply with the same level of attention. Nobody controls anything, OP has no privileges to delete replies and the OPs usually also don't.

>>12073 > I have no interest in other's people opinion on how "good" some response is Ublock Origin can hide it, if you know how

I do use traditional forums for specific interests, in fact I mostly migrated there when KC died. I don't use reddit for the reasons already stated, but I often land there when I google some shit.

I first used image boards because I’m too lazy to make a Reddit account but now that I have one, mainstream forums are more fun than Reddit. I do like r/polandball tho

I heard you get banned on reddit for saying the wrong thing and everything I say is wrong(right) so I never bothered to go there. My car club has a forum but it's slow, some topics get posted in once every few months, some a few times a day.

I actually use a reddit addition while googling answers to problems when I want human experince in my answers. No irrelevant SEO bullshit getting in my way.

>>12294 What if I tell you, reddit posters might have ulterior motives?

>>12296 Most are just random people. And even if a bunch is AI bots, they'll be more organic than most other things you find. If you search for "noise cancelling headphones recommendation", then adding "site:reddit.com" will 100% improve the results.

>for your particular interests there is no subreddit or forum for shitposting besides image boards

>>12298 There are more German-language shitposting subplebbits than German-language imageboards.

>>12299 better stay there if you are such a reddit expert

>>12301 How many Big Metts did you just eat?

Post quality on reddit and twitter are lower, there's much more spam, shit posting and AI slop there. On traditional forums you usually have some local celebrity namefags you have to deal with as well. They are usually quite annoying and I had my fair share of forum drama in the past. Posters on the imageboards rarely have any "personality", and when they do it's really abstract. This helps to disassociate worlds from who is posting them, which helps to process them better.

I don't like carrying the baggage of an account. I want to own nothing. If could do away with my name, I would do it.