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Sheldan ,

I went on a few boards. /wg/ and /po/ is interesting. (Do not put an l there’s that’s a mistake) /g/ was interesting at times. I visit it a lot less these days, but I still check /wg/ for wallpapers.

dependencyinjection ,

No but I’ve always been curious but never found an app for iOS and I just can’t be bothered using the browser for sites I would use a lot.

spittingimage ,
@spittingimage@lemmy.world avatar

No. Never have. Everything I’ve read about 4chan makes me think it’s not the right forum for me.

feoh ,

I won’t moralize because that never stopped anyone from doing anything, ever :)

What I will say is, with the vastness of the internet available to me, I would not personally choose to sift through the reams of malice and hate to find the useful grains that no doubt exist, buried.

Plenty of other permissive fora where even somewhat radical ideas can be expressed but without the embrace of genocide, Neo-Nazism and rape.

arefx ,

Fuck no

JackbyDev ,

Anything good on 4chan will make it out of 4chan. It’s not worth your time.

Buddahriffic ,

Yeah, I enjoy the 4chan highlights. Some of them really know how to entertain. But those communities have like a couple posts per day out of probably a higher volume of posts than Lemmy sees on its entire network.

Just like Reddit or here. The memorable threads are rare, you’ll go through hundreds of average ones for each one that gets adopted into the lore.

MystikIncarnate ,

Any time I’ve ventured into 4chan, it’s mainly been for the lulz. I never gained any knowledge that could be called “useful” from the experience.

IDK, it doesn’t seem like a worthwhile way to spend your time, especially if you’re looking to gain something from it.

I mean, if you’re bored and just want to get some cheap laughs or something, I guess it’s useful, but actual factual information? Not so much.

Pratai ,

I’m not 12, so…. No.

RabbitMix ,

I used it for a little over a decade (2005-2016) it’s a truly awful place, you’ll gain nothing from the experience.

burrito ,

My name is Boxxy

InputZero ,

Reading that made me feel like I lost The Game. That’s a bit of Internet history I am happy to forget.

baatliwala ,

I like it for sports like footy because it captures its chaotic nature

JayDee ,

I know that the chans were used for orchestrating some of the various harrassment campaigns that have happened throughout the years, including most of the gamergate BS. They’re such chaotic spaces I can’t imagine trying to pull off any prolonged actions on them, and the automatic pseudonymity really brings out the seediest people possible.

BigPotato ,

Back in the day, when it was light-hearted things like Habbo Hotel raids, Triforcing, and secretly hiding CP in the images you upload so that other people help proliferate CSAM.

If you can’t tell by that last part, I don’t go there anymore. /b/ was never good and all that.

Every now and then, I check it out though. I’m obviously old and certainly not anyone’s personal army so I look at a page or two of porn and gore and shrug, click out, and let time march onward.

snownyte ,

No I don't. I just know that it is the source where if you ruffle the wrong feathers, which is hard to gauge because anyone can decide to be an asshole at a given. Then you're just going to be in for a miserable time. 4Chan has built up it's reputation throughout the 2000s and into the 2010s, as a place where people are rabidly mischievous and utilize what anonymity they have to drive anyone insane if they think someone ran afoul with them.

4Chan was really what gave birth to places like Encyclopedia Dramatica, their ranks have long infected Reddit and they once used to have been behind the whole Anonymous movement.

Not a crowd to fuck with. Just imagine messing with the cool kid in school and suddenly during recess you're encircled by their 20 friends and they just have a field day with you in however they see fit.

AnarchoBolshevik ,
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I frequented /v/, /int/, and a few other boards about one dozen years ago. Now the only things that I touch are a few of the archival websites, and even then only rarely. Occasionally I’ll visit an archive to look for images or clips, and more unoften I’ll look up a phrase or word out of curiosity, but that is the extent of it. I haven’t posted anything on the official website in a very long time (and I’ve never posted anything on the archival websites at all).

CanadaPlus ,

No, I never went down that rabbit hole, which is interesting in hindsight. I went straight from old-school forums and chatrooms (where I’m sure I was very obviously a child) to Reddit.

By the time I was hearing about it it was just “that Nazi pedo incel site”.

DragonTypeWyvern ,

Because it is

CanadaPlus ,

From what I heard, there was more going on initially. It’s just that that’s what tends to collect in totally unmoderated spaces, and 4chan fell victim to it.

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