Just joined. Thought I'd share my input on this thread before doing anything else as it caught my eye. I'm not even too much of a lolicon (not as much as I was a while ago) but do think there are issues with modern Internet society, so I guess this place is somewhere I might fit into quite well. ^^
I think straying somewhat away from the KiwiFarms and imageboard attitude, but also straying away from the woke Twitter/Reddit/Discord attitude, is really what's needed. We shouldn't harbour outside drama here the way Kiwi does and makes a fair great point of it, or pick and choose favourites to ban based on popularity/internet points the way the woke Gen Zers seem to. Essentially, going back to roughly around the late 2000s-early 2010s vibe forums had, so just before phoneposting came onto the scene (2012), underage zoomers sprawled their ironically smegma-coated SJW hands all over social media (2015) and Discord killed off the Internet forum in general for good for the most part (c. 2017).
The former turns us into what some outsiders will call 'no better' for backstabbing the woke individuals if we make that our focus, and I think as a whole we should (as a community) try to differentiate from being part of the "binary agenda" that ironically post-Gen Zers have created despite most of the woke individuals being supposedly transgender/non-binary leaning (see: literally everyone eventually in the game modding, Nintendo, Touhou, computer aesthetics, etc. circles - all of which I'm basically universally banned from and all seem to be kinda intertwined with each other in terms of the types of people that tend to end up meeting each other/hitting it big).
The latter on the other hand is obvious stupidity. Marketing as a freedom-of-speech platform is also stupidity as the Internet is in such a shambles at this point, and it seems like this goes hand-in-hand with 'alternative' clone websites that eventually end up in some scandal and everyone supports Big Tech again anyway - not that it mattered as much of the time they're running off-site scripts belonging to the Big Tech companies anyways full of overblown JavaScript. Setting up us the bomb is not the way to go.
On a note, I do know the owner of an imageboard that's rather cosy, not overly active but the best ones never are (just look at 4chan nowadays). Maybe they could affiliate with you guys if they like this place? I dunno.
Afaik lolis are illegal on England an Ireland, but not in Scotland
This is the first time I've heard this, though I live in England. Last I read that law applied to the entirety of the UK. It's still stupid either way, most of Western Europe doesn't seem to give a shit.
Maybe this explains why so many weeaboos seem to come from Scotland (though I have no idea why, in England, the West Midlands of all areas are so prominently full of anime fans, with Kent being one of the lowest counts given I've met only a few people from here online ever who like anime stuff and that's including myself)...