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What is the Kiwi Farms?

by hammock 3y ago

jcadam 3y ago
Be happy that you do not know.
LegitShady 3y ago
A toxic website where online trolls discuss other personalities, mostly online, in a toxic way.
lmm 3y ago
A discussion forum similar to, say, Something Awful (or indeed HN), with a focus on mocking online misbehaviour and a reputation for unpopular political views.
- Gabriel_Martin 3y ago
  “Mocking online misbehavior” is pretty generous.
  - jojobas 3y ago
    Pretty accurate. You make yourself a name suing a waxing salon for not waxing your balls, you get a KF thread. You harass a github project for accepting contributions from a hardcore Christian, you get a KF thread. You declare "everything is racist, everything is sexist, everything is homophobic and you need to point it all out", you get a KF thread.
- ZoomerCretin 3y ago
  >with a focus on mocking online misbehaviour and a reputation for unpopular political views. A less generous interpretation is that they coordinate harassment campaigns against transgender people and have caused at least three suicides.
  - phpisthebest 3y ago
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    - ZoomerCretin 3y ago
      https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/02/kiwi-farms-die-drop-cloudflare-chandler-trolls/ https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/02/kiwi-farms-die-... https://fortune.com/2022/09/05/kiwi-farms-so-bad-cloudflare-feared-immediate-threat-to-human-life-for-clara-sorrenti-keffals/ https://fortune.com/2022/09/05/kiwi-farms-so-bad-cloudflare-... It is anything but false. They bragged about their kill count. Do you have any source for your claim?
      - lmm 3y ago
        The "immediate threat to human life" was not identified specifically; the only post meeting that description was taken down by moderators in less than an hour (which compares favourably with many social media sites' response times to similar incidents) and was from a new account that hadn't posted anything else, so hardly representative of the site's culture. While I don't know the specifics behind your other link, like most articles about it it's using second- and third-hand claims; given there was an orchestrated smear campaign against the site, I'm sceptical. It was certainly convenient that Kiwi Farms was removed from the Internet Archive just as articles like this were being published, making it impossible to verify or disprove any of their allegations. If you're worrying about sources (which you are absolutely right to!), I'd start there; do the posts that article is talking about actually exist?
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What is the Kiwi Farms?

jcadam 3y ago

Be happy that you do not know.

LegitShady 3y ago

A toxic website where online trolls discuss other personalities, mostly online, in a toxic way.

lmm 3y ago

A discussion forum similar to, say, Something Awful (or indeed HN), with a focus on mocking online misbehaviour and a reputation for unpopular political views.

Gabriel_Martin 3y ago
“Mocking online misbehavior” is pretty generous.
- jojobas 3y ago
  Pretty accurate. You make yourself a name suing a waxing salon for not waxing your balls, you get a KF thread. You harass a github project for accepting contributions from a hardcore Christian, you get a KF thread. You declare "everything is racist, everything is sexist, everything is homophobic and you need to point it all out", you get a KF thread.
ZoomerCretin 3y ago
>with a focus on mocking online misbehaviour and a reputation for unpopular political views. A less generous interpretation is that they coordinate harassment campaigns against transgender people and have caused at least three suicides.
- phpisthebest 3y ago
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  - ZoomerCretin 3y ago
    https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/02/kiwi-farms-die-drop-cloudflare-chandler-trolls/ https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/02/kiwi-farms-die-... https://fortune.com/2022/09/05/kiwi-farms-so-bad-cloudflare-feared-immediate-threat-to-human-life-for-clara-sorrenti-keffals/ https://fortune.com/2022/09/05/kiwi-farms-so-bad-cloudflare-... It is anything but false. They bragged about their kill count. Do you have any source for your claim?
    - lmm 3y ago
      The "immediate threat to human life" was not identified specifically; the only post meeting that description was taken down by moderators in less than an hour (which compares favourably with many social media sites' response times to similar incidents) and was from a new account that hadn't posted anything else, so hardly representative of the site's culture. While I don't know the specifics behind your other link, like most articles about it it's using second- and third-hand claims; given there was an orchestrated smear campaign against the site, I'm sceptical. It was certainly convenient that Kiwi Farms was removed from the Internet Archive just as articles like this were being published, making it impossible to verify or disprove any of their allegations. If you're worrying about sources (which you are absolutely right to!), I'd start there; do the posts that article is talking about actually exist?
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