Used to be voat before it went down.
When The_Donald got banned or muted or whatever many red hats tried to join voat, but they found it to toxic for their tastes.
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Discord.
Doesn't matter whose. They're all shit. They're not a substitute for forums for support yet everyone uses them as that. They breed power-tripping children (and man-children) who think they're super special because they mod some server. They're made for churning out drama. They aren't searchable from search engines. I mean they were made for GAMERS and then spread out to the rest of the toxic internet.
I agree with your points but I disagree with your belief that all of them are shit. I'm in some to follow some small youtuber because I keep not getting notified of their be uploads (I've been following Etho's Lab for over a decade and watched every single upload of his as soon as possible since then but youtube still doesn't show me his videos), an artist server to catch their latest drawings and go hang out with other people who like his art and nargacuga in general as well as some friend servers to play games and share memes. I literally just got out of a call I was for about 4 to 5 hours with my friend as I played one game and they played another until enough people got together to continue playing R.E.P.O.
Discord has its horrible servers, but you can def find some good places to hang out, you just have to avoid the absolutely gigantic ones with hundreds of people, but even then you can get good ones. Etho's fan server is big but I've always had a great time there. The labrats one is another that I've had a great time sharing my horrible lab stories with and gotten good tips back. Discord is not too different from other social networks, if you don't curate it right, you will get a lot of shit, but if you manage to get it right it can be great
I do get your sentiment but discord has its place. It's nice for quick messaging. Forums are for well thought out discussions. Discord is where you would shitpost, have offtopic channels, link weird videos and memes in a quick and fast way.
Destiny.gg that guy has the most vile racist community I have ever seen.
crystal cafe
I try to stay away from .world The userbase wants it to be a copy of modern day reddit
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Pretty much any Steam game's forum is full of nasty toxic fans.
I don't know it's the worst, but the phoronix (a Linux news site) forums is an absolute mind numbing concoction of shite. The people there seemingly get activated over some keywords and begin puking in the comment section with no moderation
I'm gonna say FunnyJunk. It's mostly right wing memes and downvotes if you say anything close to "I don't think this Trump gut has it all figured out"
Not as bad but still quite terrible are probably the steam forums. There are some systems in there that literally encourage and reward saying the most stupid/offensive shit, and with a very lax moderation it's just a complete mess.
Can a game's dev mod the forum? because deltarune's one is pretty ok in my experience.
Yeah, pretty sure its the devs of the game that are ultimately responsible for moderating their game forum, making internal employees or trusted players mods and so on. The main issue comes from communities that aren't being moderated, or from the general steam forums.
Oh 4chan, no question.
Full of HR and "ass kissers" glorifying the work class exploitation as a "way of life". Pure sewage.
The internet. We'd probably all be bettered off if we avoided it.
I've been to IRL, its even worse.
Maybe Iβm weird, but I donβt avoid any of them, I just take them for what they are, and some are total shit. That said, sometimes youβre looking for shit, so it makes sense to go to the shit farm.
You know what, scratch that, I avoid whitehouse.gov and foxnews.com.
Nobody gonna say 4chan? I'll say 4chan.
I think they've really infiltrated a lot of communities just to simply fuck them up. Reddit seriously long got hijacked by them years ago. KiwiFarms is probably where the worst of them are and then there's their home base. They're all miserable people who will just attack you for nothing and even attack themselves, it's so tribal.
Obvious one? Twitter. Youtube comments are pretty awful, and a secret third one, steam community comments. LORD they are so awful. Full of bots/people who just have awful takes or argue over the most benign shit
Only one I can think of that's not on government terror registries is Rumble. Dunno if it's just livestreaming or general video hosting, but it's mostly klansmen, nazis, and anyone banned from twitch for being creeps
JD moon face is a major investor in Rumble.
hexbear.net, they're really annoying
We can confirm, yep.
pr0gramm.com, German incel IT/gamer guy site
I clicked here to say Kiwi farms too.
thinking Hitler/Stalin is awesome
Guy who did the holocaust versus guy who stopped the holocaust. These are not the 
unless you're pretty stupid.
It's hard to beat KiwiFarms tbh. Like, you basically have to name a CSAM channel or something. They're fucked up.
Yeah maybe 8chan? Or those neonazi telegram groups that exist to incite terrorism