Pretty much everything you have heard is on the Darknet actually is there. Black market where anything/everything has a price (if you know how to deal with the damn cryptocurrency BS), snuff films, porn of every sort, email providers, services offered, whistleblower sites, scriptkiddie and fraudster sites, forums, underground e-books, you name it. I been exploring it quite awhile, and don't feel like I even penetrated the veneer...but I can say the same of internet.
I used to watch like six hours of TV every day, and a good half of that I was bored...so bored I wasted hours watching shows and movies that was crap, merely because it was the least crappy crap that was on offer. Then I flipped Comcast the bird, threw out the near useless Mohu Leaf antenna, and got VDSL. Now I still watch the occasional TV show or movie for free online, but most of my time is spent just exploring the internet and darknet. I can 'timewarp' six hours easy on just that, and I've not been bored since making the switch. You do have to cultivate a sense of curiosity, and take a more active role in your entertainment, as opposed to just giving in to the couch-potato coma of TV, which requires no more participation then channel-hopping til you find the least boring crap to watch, then surrendering to the mind-numbing drivel (usually leftist propaganda and 'woke' BS).
Oh I got rid of my last TV in 2003. Never really followed that bullshit at all. I saw that there was a ton of shit on Tor but it remained a yawn to me in a lot of ways. It was either paywalled with BTC or it was not working or so sketch that it was risky to even use. I got tired of running multiple OSes and restarting all the time to airgap stuff that is important from stuff that was dangerous, etc. Im fine running linux and fine with crypto but Im not buying shit that way online. Anyway Do you know of any places like Poal/8ch that are all dark net? There was an 8ch on tor back a while ago but overall I found the best stuff on 8ch tbh. Got tons of good stuff there and never found any good shit on Tor.
Congratulations on ditching the TV, and beating me to it by many years. Think I did it like five years ago. On the Darknet I don't recall finding any site paywalled yet, but obviously can't say that about the regular internet where such crap abounds. I don't consider any site too risky or dangerous, though I would not be buying anything without mastery of bitcoin, which I have pretty much given up on.
My 'new' PC will have Win 7 and MX Linux on separate HDDs, and will accomodate use of LiveCDs via the boot order. That is set to DVD burner>mobile rack SSD (Linux)>mobile rack hard disk (blank)>internal HDD (Win 7). When I want to go direct to Win 7 I just turn off the mobile rack, and hit 'F1'. When I want to go direct to Linux, I just leave the DVD birner empty, and when I want to use a LiveCD (Kodachi Linux or TAILS) I just make sure it is in the DVD burner prior to boot. All pretty much automatic. I already mostly have the gameplan worked out prior to turning on the PC, so I don't have to keep bouncing back and forth. Since I have boot order set to DVD burner first, I do LivdCDs first, then practice with MX Linux and take care of online banking/shoping, then finish up with Win 7 (mostly just expolring the internet, watch movie/TV show, email, etc.).
I have not run across any poal/voat alternatives on the Darknet yet, but then I have not been looking. Between poal, mewe, ruqqus, 8kun, and saidit, I pretty much have all the social media I can handle. I can take a look see through the various directories today, and see if anything turns up. If I don't get back to you if a couple days it means you slipped through the cracks, and a reminder is needed.
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