>>459583 My asshole opinions aren't that bad, certainty don't justify bans.
"If you get kicked out of everywhere maybe you're the problem". If so it wasn't always the case.
I've been banned from places for a joke, and I must admit it usually is pretty funny. I got banned from here a few weeks ago and it was hilarious for a day or two but they banned me for a full fucking week. I cannot abide people who claim imageboard moderators need to follow some sort of codified declaration on poster rights instead of handing out banterous bans whenever it's funny to do so.
If you want to be less lonely, there are websites for making actual real-life friends. If you just want an online community you can spend all day in, then just pick a 4chan board I never go to and which you won't make any worse, such as /v/ or /tv/ or /int/. You could even combine both of my suggestions and go on 4chan's /soc/ board and exchange Kik details and befriend the utter freaks who hang out there.
If you would like the option to speak to women, I'm afraid women don't actually exist. You might think they do, but they're a psyop planted by the CIA and MI5 to make the rest of us work really hard for our capitalist overlords in order to impress these non-existent "female men".
The internet we once knew is long dead. There are a few remnant chans left but they move at a glacial pace and for some reason it takes bloody ages to compose a post.
I'm finding gaming community discord to be an adequate social outlet, so long as there's a core focus you all come together for. It's taken some time but I've found a semi-decent group and reasonable comfort being around familiar people, so aye.
It's definitely helped me to find a British group as opposed to international or American - familiar accents, cultural similarities, etc.
I miss Idlechan / iichan / wakachan. It was a really good example of nice (and niche) boards working in a federated manner, like the webrings of yore. Ultimately I hate that there's nothing around these days to fill the hole left by the absence of the "Sad Girls Crying In Snow" board. A lot of today's interests are probably served by that IRC ripoff with the Mickey Mouse Pants logo or some other ogre that just wants to sell your data. I hate the current internet; I can't help but feel that it's had the fun torn out of it.
>>459582 Not dead, but much much larger than it was during the arguable golden age. Chatrooms don't really exist as they once did, neither do newsgroups.
I've found Facebook is alright for chatting to new people as long as you join the right groups about niche interests. Though the bigger a group gets the more full of bellwhiffs it is.
At least .gs will never leave, apart from that Scary few days where purple forgot to pay the bill.
>>459615 nah, this is a real ass problem with autism for both genders
the eye contact is one thing, but some autistic people also have really dry and expressionless voices - in general if you have autism, you need all the support you can get to do well socially
>>459645 A lot of autistics wear their arseholeness as a badge of honour. I am an autistic, and in a previous job worked exclusively with autistics. The ones who had learned to "mask" were generally fine. The ones that never bought into that and just act without social inhibitions are horrible. Needlessly nasty or overly blunt, but they can pull the "oh I didn't realise telling someone their project is a "garbage fire" is rude, because of the 'tism".
Whereas because I've had to mask for so long I come across as overly polite and compliant.
I guess when you get marginalised by society for being a sperg, which still happens, at some point you no longer give a toss and just give up attempting to fit in. One of my friends has a brother who has been diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder, and his opinion is, why bother. He'll never "crack the code" of neurotypical human interaction, so what's the point in trying. He's got a job doing inhouse tech support for a major company, and he seems to be doing fine. Like many spergs, he's very into computers and has encyclopaedic knowledge, although I had to stop him once when I asked him about the pros and cons of buying a particular kind of notebook, because he was just. fucking. rambling. on. about it. But I can see him in charge of a company's computer infrastructure. He's probably good at that, but don't expect a lot of politeness from him.
