Me too but they’re pretty much non-existent these days. The last few I used are no longer in business. Plus a large amount of the best clear net type substances are illicit now.
They already have.
There are guides, but the gist of it is to do everything through TAILS & Tor, non-virtualized, including crypto moves which are otherwise more traceable than some ppl think. Encrypt all messages yourself using PGP (via Kleopatra or whatever); don't trust markets to do it. Remember virtually all vendors and markets will eventually exit scam or get taken down by law enforcement. There is no way to remove all risk; all we can do is make moves to minimize risk and avoid becoming a target or low-hanging fruit. If you really need help, @Cream Gravy? PM me and I'll point you in the right direction, but I get the feeling you're a bit too risk averse to make these moves.
Can't say I'm risk averse, rather that I always found using crypto even at a basic level to just be a pain in the ass. I miss when clearnet vendors took credit cards and money orders despite their ease of tracking lol
Man I'm still not even 2 years into having an account here, despite having lurked for years before then. From your perspective, how has the site changed in the 10 years you've been around?
Interesting, I wonder if that's because of most younger people not having a single understanding as to how old school forum formats like this work. Have there been any concrete/agreed upon reasons as for the decline in userbase?^It’s a lot less busy. Used to be you could have a back and forth conversation, and moderating was actually a busy task. Now it’s kinda dead, the best people either died or left the forum for the most part. Even the Lounge is relatively slow these days.
PD social used to be hopping and I made a lot of friends here. Now you’re lucky if there’s a few posts a week. And again… most of my friends from here have died. The earliest years of the fentanyl contaminating heroin took out a heck of a lot of good people
I definitely get that, the reason I like it here compared to other forums is that it's not the 16 year olds on Reddit posting shit like "I'm physically dependant on 25-40mg of Etizolam a day and my parents just took my supply, what do I do?". I feel like I'm younger than most people here (26) but it's just a generally calmer place where more people are interested in being functional, as opposed to escaping the feeling that most younger people justifiably have of feeling like we've been born into the end of the world around us.
Yeah, I totally agree, the discussion here is much more experienced and level headed. At the same time, I may be biased but I feel the general atmosphere is much nicer and less judgemental than in other online forums.
Oh yeah holy shit, looks like I'm coming on to 12. How is that possible!?
Wow, me too! Like Esperighanto, I lurked for...maybe the same amount of time before I made an account? Wow
I opened my first account here at age 17 in 2001. Delsyd is my 3rd incarnation.
The site is definitely less busy than it was in like 2010, but claiming it's dead or there's only a few posts a week is a bit of an overstatement. There are dozens of posts even on the slowest days, thousands of visitors every day. I'm sure some of those are bots, and most are just guest accounts, but, still, people use the website quite a bit, especially in comparison to other comparable forums.
