BUILD IT & THEY WILL COME

 I'm doing another strange experiment this month - if doing no posts makes no difference to the amount of hits this blog gets for the first three weeks, would doing more posts increase the hits after three weeks?

So I'm going to do more posts this month. Here are some more random images because randoms are fun!

 

TRYING OUT WIMKIN

Yesterday I got an email from a free speech social media platform called Wimkin. I had no idea what it was but clearly I had signed up for an account at some point because they had my email. So I logged in and checked it out.

 https://wimkin.com/profile-31457

It turns out I had last looked at Wimkin in September 2020, so nearly five years ago. I set up an account, but never posted anything or made any friends. At that point the deep state was just starting the covidhoax, and the posting I was doing about germ theory and the vaccine scam was getting me a lot of account suspensions on Facebook.

So in 2020 I was certainly looking for uncensored social media alternatives, but Wimkin was very new, and there wasn't much content on there. I put it in the check back later basket and promptly forgot all about it.

It was interesting to revisit the platform in 2025. It works pretty well, with a well designed website, and it's probably most similar to Facebook of all the alternative platforms. It is pretty much uncensored, apart from pornography, nudity, and violence, which is fair enough.

But it still seems very small compared to Facebook, with a limited amount of content. Watching the entire feed (rather than just my friends posts, as on FB), if someone rapidly does half a dozen posts in a row, they will all come up at once because new posts are being added that slowly. 

On Facebook, just the posts from my own friends (about 1300) and the groups I follow (about 200) provide a vastly larger flow of new content. I would never try to view all the posts on Facebook even if that was possible, because there would be thousands of posts every minute.

And the other issue is that almost all the content on Wimkin is American, with a particular focus on American politics. Not being an American, for me this is a big drawback. My Facebook feed is global, with a about half the content being from New Zealand, so is of much more interest to me. But I gather Facebook was very much American only for the first few years, so this could well change over time if Wimkin takes off. 

It also has a lot of ads for controlled news sites like Fox News, and worship of Donald Trump, with seemingly very little understanding of "play both sides".

Something not many people seem to be aware of is that as of 2025 Facebook has backed right off all it's censorship - it's bordering on anything goes at this point. To demonstrate this I've been doing an experiment on one of my alt accounts to show just how much controversial content we can now get away with posting on Facebook.

https://sift666.blogspot.com/p/facebook-uncensored.html

 

So I've revisited Wimkin, done half a dozen quick posts and found a dozen new friends. I have an account set up, and if Facebook ever returns to being heavily censored, Wimkin could be my backup plan. But at this point I'll put it on hold again for now.

Thanks to everyone involved with Wimkin for yesterday's entertainment!

 

FACEBOOK UNCENSORED

 

 Facebook has long had a reputation for censoring all non approved content. During the covidhoax (2020-2024) this censorship was particularly bad, and if you wanted to post anything that questioned the deep state narratives, you had to misspell key words, blur parts of images, and run multiple accounts to work around the constant 30 day account suspensions.

But in 2025 (essentially since Trump was selected), FB seems to have reprogrammed their censorship AI, and told it to back off. Most people on FB are now used to the old censorship restrictions, and like sheep avoiding an electric fence, they have no idea the power to the fence is no longer turned on.

We can now post all sorts of stuff that would have caused an account suspension in 2024 - vaccinations, eugenics, trannies, jews, globalist pedos - most of this stuff is no longer a problem on FB. There are still a few things that can trigger the censors, but they are often quite hard to anticipate. 

For example any deep reveals on jewish ownership and control of "alternative" gatekeeper shill influencers may be deleted, while discussing butthole sex practise manuals written for children's school sex education classes may be fine. It's hard to pick, but in general you can get away with a lot more stuff now than you could at any time over the previous decade. 

Rather than suspending your account, now the bots are more likely to just grey list it so everything you post comes up low in the AI algorithms. By always remembering to click on "Feeds" rather than just looking at a timeline of whatever approved popular shit the FB AI chooses for you, can see a chronological feed and bypass the effects of most of the grey listings anyway. 

This uncertainty about censorship led me to do an "AUGUST EXPERIMENT". Throughout August I'm aiming to test what we can get away with on Facebook, and what, if anything, we can't. Fingers crossed my account doesn't get suspended, because that would hinder the experiment. But I have other accounts...

 

I've set up a new page to compile my August Facebook posts - FACEBOOK UNCENSORED EXPERIMENT

LESS IS MORE

After another month of not doing any blog posts I'm back and ready to let rip. Just like when I did no posts back in May, I'm again amazed at how little difference it seems to make whether I actually do any new posts or not.

How to choose images for your blog that could bore the legs off a donkey...

Basically my little blog gets roughly the same amount of hits if I add any new posts or not. I last did a post on July 6 and then none for the rest of the month, but the traffic pretty much went on unchanged until July 29 before showing any real signs of decline, so if I only did one post every three weeks I'd probably get about the same amount of hits.

Some pages & posts do get more hits than others. Often these more popular posts are just quickies with bugger all content, and I have no idea why they attract any traffic. For example why on earth is this post extra popular? Is it because it because it includes the words "huge penis"?



Which leads me to wonder, WOULD MORE BE MORE?. It would be an interesting experiment to do 100 posts in a month. I'm not really likely to ever do that many, but I'd be curious to see if it made my blog get more traffic. Although I suspect it wouldn't make much difference, which is another reason why I probably won't ever do it.

 

And trying to do masses of posts probably soon become lame and gay.

A FULL PLATE

 The 2025 Tour de France has just kicked off this weekend. I've been following the Tour since the 80's and remember buying this book 40 years ago!

Apart from watching Tour highlights for the rest of the month I seem to have about a million other things to do, so even though it's only a month since I last said this, I'm going to have another month of not blogging. 

In the meantime here are a bunch of images that caught my eye this week to fill in for all my missing blog posts. I plan to be back doing awesome real blog posts again in August.