>>158800
It's simple. To have a large scale impact you need to produce things that reach the large scale, which Indiachan does not.
>>158798
I had a huge ass post on typography but tor bugged out. lemme write it again
>>158800
>>158808
Okay. Good question.
The problem is, what part of Inch are we talking about. What part of inch do you visit it for? the doxxing? the slop? baits? misogyny? casteism?
The thing is that Indiachan will never really be any big right-wing thing (too much infighting) and nor will it ever truly be a niche underground creative culture (no creativity is happening)
Indiachan capitalizes on an amazing format that is magical and genuinely good, it's an open room, but it has history and culture, its not reddit, and other social media sites are more like tv, you just get fed reels and posts, nothing connects you with people, indiachan is all about people and their thoughts and connection (or argument)
This invites all sorts of creatures, the good are amazing, creatives, but the bad are the worst, it's open season at the downtown alley and it's a mix of everything.
>>158817
Inch can be good, it could create impact, it could create great media, games or cool shit even. But it won't.
What you'd need is to gut the worst parts of it, which is 99% of it. The baiters, kangers, casteists, all of it would need to be cut out. Which would kill the website.
To make a site that has an impact, you'd need an entirely new website, one that does not promote these things
>>158800
There are genuine anons here who thinks they can create a rival to twitter reddit in the form of forum culture.
I think that came out wrong and condescending.
Let me rephrase that.
U guys are the best, not even fazed by seeing sheer enormity of the task ahead. Yet you dream that u will do just that.
I have full faith that ur journey to create that digital space will die before reaching succession yet I'm attracted to ur cause. leaving this place will be tough for the near future but not impossible many ascended to prove otherwise.
I want to be valuable for that journey yet my laziness and my procrastination defeats me to achieve anything else.
But I hope my fellow anons can pull off something no one could.
God bless.
>>158824
>>158820
Im considering it, honestly I am. Of making a new website. Ofcourse sadly I'd never even mention it here.
It'd be like inch, a forum, but different in that functionally the only difference would be who we promote it to, young creatives in India, writers, artists, general inquisitives and wholesome spirits.
If that sounds like something that warrants you to immediately shit on the idea, then you might be part of the problem with inch.
India has a real lack of social spaces, where you can meet new people, Delhi and Mumbai has this (idk about blr) but what about the rest of the country?
Inch has a great premise, the premise is, anyone can post, say anything, and we have a history and a culture. That is an amazing idea, it's just that the "chan" suffix kills it instantly, as it attracts all the worst critters.
>>158820
What good impact has any imageboard created. Even a “good” imageboard doesn’t incentivise its users to contribute they have no real direct association or sense of community with the imageboard (the only community-esque imageboards likr sharty which produce OC content are for parasocial mentally ill individuals who think of the other anons as “friends”), nor do they have a sense of identity like forums or Reddit where users get recognition. A good imageboard should be place for discussion, not creation of OC content.
>>158829
The problem is that discussion based communities always turn to shit (reddit) People have a tendency to either argue or just be weird. I genuinely believe you need to house creatives, who are writing, producing things, creating things, stories, ideas or whatever.
Discussion is like a buffet, you can only house so many eaters, until they start to shit in the trays
>>158834
>>158825
I've already thought about it. It'd have to be something related to the arts, ofcourse, it'll be advertised in drudgery, we can't depend on word-of-mouth, we'll have to take to the general internet. I hate that as much as anyone but its essential. It's not about the website, anyone can make a website but the aesthetics (not just visual aesthetic but placement of ideas) and the community.
Essentially Inch is a community, thats what it is, its a community. And it's a horrible community, but it's a sufficient enough community, it's a real village here.
>>158834
>>158835
A good community online, can't really always meet each other, so the forms of enrichment, can only really be creation, it doesnt mean its only for creatives, even a good funny post is a form of creativity, it's made and brought something new into the world.
I might actually do it, I'll unfortunately not advertise or connect it to inch in anyway, because If I put my real efforts into a community I want it to be a place where you dont need to be anon, I want a space where all the zoom-zooms can write fan-fics, make weird games or write stories. I want a community space, where people can talk about sports (sports as in, sport they play) they can meet people, they can make collaborative projects etc.
It's a very fanstamatic idea, it'll probably not start up properly.
>>158841
Like our Mail club for example, we've decided to postpone the second run, because there's one anon who has been particularly adamant on doxxing threats.
I want to actually do cool stuff, even for free, but I am limited by the toxic radiation and the problems that the toxicity of this site causes. You'll be doxxed and harassed and that adds more problems to any creative project you want to work on.
I genuinely dont even want to do the Inch Mail thing for money (lol, 101 rs) it's really something for a community I thought I am a part of, but now im not sure entirely
>>158835
>And it's a horrible community, but it's a sufficient enough community, it's a real village here
You’re so fucking delusional I love it. >>158834
I don’t know if I agree with that, I feel discussing and arguing with the right people is fun. If you could exclude the retards.
>creatives
Yes I think there do need to be creatives as in people who can synethesise something, an idea and concept while simultaneously discussing and debating it. Instead of the same 5 topics being regurgitated over and over again.
>>158841
Ao3 wattpad and Roblox (for games) already exist. Good luck getting them to move to your platform, what do you offer that others won’t be able to.
>>158846
No offense, but I saw that happening. I think you are too sheltered, you think a lot of these anons are being edgy or ironic. No they are not.
>>158847
Bigger sites are all eventually more individually focused. Inch is all connected, therefore it has a strong strong community sense.
Reddit is the weird one here. Idk why its so bad but it is.
What I'd offer is, a site that's open, thats not divided into categories, everyone is encouraged to interact with each other.
>>158857
You can laugh at that because you think a community is only a good thing. There are awful communities that work because they are strongly knit. Inch is a strong community, its just a strong shit hole
I got a question why can't we build upon others aren't discord, Roblox ao3 just a platform.
Is it necessary that we need to have the underlying platform for our goals?
>>158857
I think inch is different from most imageboards in the sense that anons are contrarian and have unique viewpoints. Western boards tend to mesh into some sort of collectivistic group beliefs, there is hardly any arguments to the same degrees which happens over here. 2 Anglo 4chan users are far more similar than 2 inch users, in every possible metric. Also it’s rather hard to tell individual anons apart, they seem to mesh into one hivemind.
>>158859
Think about it. Instagram closes you down to friends you know, or just risking dming people you dont know, it's very, very individual, it's like a tv box.
Reddit is, it's own weird thing but we know it's tiring.
Inch on the other hand, there's namefags (like you) there's users who are recognizable, theres a real history, real lingo, people we all know about, and ONE big place where everyone is talking, /b/. That's why it still survives, because the users who are in here, know they have somewhat of an interesting (stretching the word) place to come back to
>>158863
>>158868
A new site is important because site rules determine how the communities function. Indiachan is a chan, it therefore forms chan like behavior, its a format and it produces a result, discord groups are discord groups.
But a new site, that changes the format can change the outcomes
>>158874
This stuff also has the potential for real money. A good community that isnt toxic, can be used as a proof of work, and can create a lot of important friendships.
Can you imagine basically, an inch where no one wants to talk shit all day?
>>158865
>Reddit is, it's own weird thing but we know it's tiring.
I never really thought about why Reddit is so shit. On paper the idea seems brilliant, but it turned out dogshit. Any idea why?
>>158875
>Can you imagine basically, an inch where no one wants to talk shit all day?
No. What you’re making is not “an inch” in any sense of the word.
>>158886
I got my account handed me down by someone who was a part of it. It's an interesting place, I havent even logged in a year or two, hope I havent lost my password. Although a lot of the info is just trash and not worthy if ur in India.
>>158883
all the stories you hear are crap, the internet is just a means of communication, tor is harder to track down to real identities so illegal stuff is easier to mask here, you can find drugs, exploits, data breaches being sold like veggies
I am thinking of making an imageboard, where you need to write something just a piece of text about your interests and hobbies or some shit. It will be manually judged and you need to be approved to post. Also only logged in users can post while non logged have read only. The users can choose to show their username or not, so you still retain anonymity of an imaegboard while having better quality. Your thoughts on this? I will make it in the future, once i graduate and leave the country (freedom of speech).
>>158899
i would buy a vps to host in eastern europe or just a routing server that i connect to through tor in which case site would be hosted on my computer in a vm
>>158898
I think the next thing that I work on, will not be anon. I showed a, sort of a Don draper like figure here, (she works in a company) my work, and I accidentally had IAC radio open, she was so intrigued that I had to let her see, i had to explain what it was, and she kept digging so I had to explain what, indiachan is.
She really loved the idea, and I was ashamed of it, but she said it's better than most portfolio work since its genuinely a real thing used by people. She wanted me to make something like the IAC site but for her, and she would pay me for it, or soemthing, not discussed more than this but, it was an eye openr
>>158898
I don’t think I’ve ever interacted with the guy. Just know snippets of him from other anons.
>>158899
I have money but I don’t have money with me, I’m still in college. Also I don’t want the headache at this moment to be frank.
>>158902
She basically said whatever im saying here, that community work and community design are very important, and it's very profitable to work on this, should you be smart enough to not do it like me and associate it with indiachan
>>158903
It’s only profitable if you run it with adds. Or collect some data and then sell it to the Js. 4chan is running at a net loss, no company wants its brand associated with that shit.
Atleast in the sense of what it wants to accomplish. I have only a surface level understanding of his constructed faith
>>158936
Yea, I know I was mocking that.
>>158937
But I legit love all of his choices
>no phone (cuz people shit and use they phone)>not during night time (he used to have this rule maybe its revoked)>long S, and his own style of writing>also uses FRAKTUR sometimes for german
>>158941
it is autism but his site isnt for everyone, thats the point, its HIS site, and he gets to choose. And I visit his site atleast once a week, i deeply value and care for autists
>>158940
I think using a laptop psychologically makes you more likely to read longer posts? You don’t have to scroll as much. Also the general headspace it puts you in. You feel like writing well thought out crap.
Ozymandias is a Tamil Abbo like he's not even hiding it anymore
Imagine talking to a literal abbo on anonymous forum - You failed
If you thought Ozymandias was a white Englishman or if you were a Dravidian yourself, you might have had an excuse
>>158965
I have no idea except I know its Bowden. I read a lot of these guys (Evola, Spengler) even though I can honestly say im left wing and agree with not much of their ideas
>>158967
I haven't read em, just know a few concepts from each, I think I like spenglers idea of treating macro-entities as biological organisms, with birth growth and death. It is a very neat and symetric picture, and it does make a lot of sense.
>>158970
Evola? I never take his ideas seriously, I am not reading him currently so nothing spikes the mind, but I like Evola, his interpretation of history, the way he takes myths seriously. I recommend it as a read, but as a real opinion, his ideas are more like fiction, like lovecraft
>>158967
>>158969
Evola is a mystic and a third positionist, not a fascist, no one in the party liked him, everyone actually affiliated with the ideology was killed off, which left him as the only one writing books.
>>158971
>>158975
I'm too broke to appreciate good art. I can tell it does look good and I'd frame it, but not a fan, I don't know what it seems to represent; it doesn't speak to me. picrel is one of my favourite paintings, it just speaks out to my soul.
>>158977
>>158978
you should read gentile is you really want to learn about actual fascism, absolutely stay away from the academic terrorist that is umberto eco
>>158981
yea, the interview, hes a retarded commie professor,
>"fascism is unique in the sense that you could remove one feature and it would still be identifiable as fascism"
translation: fascism is when my enemies are winning
guy was absolutely brainwashed by allied and marxist propaganda...
fascism is just socialism and actual idealism, nazism is racial socialism, neither are the same, he also believed franco, pinochet, salazar, horthy, ion antonescu to be fascist
>>158986
It's a myth that art is supposed to have meaning or set representation, even if the artists claims there is.
Art that is beyond just pretty pictures by hand is essentially a play with visuals, it is what you see, I see a mess of colors, teal green, yellow, soem sort of a creature, it's messy but thats a vague word, it's explosive in a wild colorful sense inside the figures, the swirls and shapes, there's a figure, or something with fangs or horns or tusks going outside of a cage? or something else, there can be, movement in this picture.
Clearly if you look at his work he's pointing out what is within something, the way there's this almost church glass like mosaic colors, wild inside the figures, and big blank flats that contrast it, thats why we know subject from background.
It's meaning? Can't say for sure, I dont think there is meaning, if there is its political and what bowden took from evola and other writers, but purely from the painting, its messy amateur work done with amateur materials, but its something that despite a lack of skill is trying to break something, to do something, it's ugly and it knows its ugly, its got a purpose
>>158988
>It's a myth that art is supposed to have meaning or set representation, even if the artists claims there is.
By this I mean, that theres a hidden "thing" inside art, that you can't get by just taking a look and feeling about, that's a riddle that's not visual art, visual art is about patterns and the picture, about the work, THEN what it says is communicated through only visuals, not as in that we can boil a picture down to let's say a set hard meaning.
Whats the meaning of his monkey? Is bowden being a racist here? Why is the monkey a cyborg esque figure? why is it unfinished? why are the colors clashing? why is it so messy?
It just is.
But what we can infer is, from an OVER view of his work, the way he draws things, the way he choses colors is a choice not just to be bold but to be bold in his specific way, he's not saying something he's showing you something.
I dont like the monkey, it's very good in terms of illustration, its cohesive and thats bad, artists who are making ugly things do this to change the way you interpret an image, most of the times art is just "Does the thing, look like the thing, but on paper?" "Wow you drew a face, and it looks like a face, thats so cool"
>>158990
It's a drawing of some greek statue I think
>>158989
I like this because its fascism being vulnerable to be better. The figure is a greek statue, I cant identify which but its classical. Fascist art tries to be hard, bold, strong, that's okay but thats a propaganda poster, you can't communicate your deeper ideas with KILL KILL, yk. And these guys arent just fascists they're, different they're esoterics, it's a much more high idea than just power. The statue is strong but its beyond just strong, its anatomy is warped, the greek thin legs thicker calves, almost like a parody or something, but he's not making fun of the statue here, the colors inside aren't about power, fascism is interesting where in, everything in it is about other people, the others, and how it'd be soo good if they werent around, its entirely focused on its propaganda and surface level on other peoples lives, its own life is very bland, just strong and blonde or white or whatever, simple, "pure" but thats a fantasy, nothing pure exists, goodness exists yes, but ideas that are really out there, really something, are also weird, and this is like seeing into a real actual persons mind, and its ugly, this is not what you expect a fascist to make, but he made it, and it's beautiful, the colors bouncing against each other, this is a meditation on an idea that is rare, its entirely about something thats not hating on others, its about something powerful yes but not destructive, more inquisitive, strange, good, filling the objects from within.
>>158991
>>158993
Leave inch immediately, I clearly underestimated your Iq, genuinely think you’re too smart and creative for this place. But ur a woman who will have a hard time due to your autism. Thankfully you are rich enough to afford it
