• stinky@redlemmy.comEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Why on earth wouldn’t you use the correct meme for that last panel? “4chan was never good”

    • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Apparently the source code revealed a ton of insecurities that would make it all but impossible for them to relaunch without a major redesign, or at least that’s what the actual coders that hang about here have said.

        • klemptor@startrek.website
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          2 months ago

          The longer they’re down, the more people will migrate elsewhere, and some proportion of those won’t return if/when 4chan comes back.

          • Hoimo@ani.social
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            2 months ago

            4chan has been the toilet of the internet for 22 years. They can stay down for months without it affecting anyone’s loyalty. Their bigger issue has been the battle against spam making it harder and harder for normal users to post anonymously. Since they implemented the new captchas, activity went down hard and it basically killed a few smaller boards where the users were more casual and less motivated anyway.

          • Trihilis@ani.socialEnglish
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            2 months ago

            There isn’t really a place where you can post anonymously like 4chan though. Although they didn’t allow VPNs since a few years so it’s not totally anonymous anyway…

            • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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              2 months ago

              There’s a whole constellation of other, far smaller, chan sites.

              I’d be floored if any of them scaled up to 4chan’s size, but othrr places to post anonymously in the 4chan imageboard format are all over the place.

  • kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    2 months ago

    It had some of the absolute greatest and the most depraved the internet had to offer. In my opinion Pepe is the greatest representation of 4chan, it can both easily be used for wholesome purposes or it can be extremely racist. It certainly left the greatest impact on the internet out of any website which is kinda funny because they were never relatively large. Now theres a 4chan shaped hole in the internet, and I hope its not filled by them flocking here.

    • vxx@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      When was the last time 4chan has used its strenghts for good, or was wholesome in any way?

      It got to be a decade

      • ☂️-@lemmy.ml
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        2 months ago

        its been a very long time. 4chan was less bad before the whole gamer gate thing.

  • KulunkelBoom@lemm.eeEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Is 4-chan gone? gasp!?! goddammit. Don’t ‘they’ realize how many assholes and degenerates this will dump on the internet? Myself included?

    • Clbull@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Hacked by a rival image board, all its moderators, janitors and premier users who made accounts have been doxxed.

      The new owners who bought it from Moot in 2016 legitimately never updated the backend… The server was still running on a nine year old version of FreeBSD and PHP.

  • ssfckdt@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    2 months ago

    Hot take, but I dare say 4chan was the source of as much of what’s good in internet culture as it was for much of what’s the worst in internet culture.

    Rickroll, Caturday, the modern meme format, reaction gifs, “TLDR”, Anonymous (well, the good versions of it), spoderman, Rule 34, trollface, rageface, quite a bit of pet abuse justice, … they may have even successfully set back AI chatbots nearly a full decade with their gaming of Microsoft’s Tay chatbot… quite a lot of modern Internet slang such as win, fail, an hero, based, copypasta, creepypasta, “god tier”, lulz, moar, sauce…

    The thing about anarchy is that it brings out both the best and the worst.

      • PurpleSkull@lemm.eeEnglish
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        2 months ago

        You think wrong. 4chan’s impact on internet culture late 2000s and the entire 2010s can’t be overstated. And that includes getting Trump elected twice.

          • PurpleSkull@lemm.eeEnglish
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            2 months ago

            Yeah not absolutely every meme/slang listed might be originated on 4Chan. TLDR seems to have originated or at least popularized by the SomethingAwful forums, which together with ebaumsworld could be considered the parents of 4Chan (with cross-pollination by Newgrounds?). But 4Chan was the crossroads of all these memes coming together, germinating and spreading to every other site shortly after.

  • MidsizedSedan@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    There was already an empty space when liveleak went under. If 4chan is gone for good, then theres nothing exciting on the internet left. Everything PG and corporate.

      • PurpleSkull@lemm.eeEnglish
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        2 months ago

        I don’t know. It’s better here than Reddit which is why I drop by. But I think jannies here get ban happy when I break out the N word to basically say hi or close every statement with a request that the person I’m responding to may please kill themselves. Not the same.

    • markovs_gun@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Yeah I legit think this is a bad thing. 4chan was bad for society but IMO it’s less so than mainstream social media. To get radicalized on 4chan you have to wade through some truly despicable shit right off the bat, where there is this friendly veneer on mainstream Internet that makes it seem safer and less horrifying even though the same underlying filth of human nature powers it all. If you encounter far right ideology on 4chan, it’s stripped of all of the edifices of respectability and it’s clear that what it is is raw unfiltered hatred. If you encounter it on Tik Tok it’s just another political viewpoint because they’re not allowed to show their true colors.

    • Hoimo@ani.social
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      2 months ago

      There’s a project called FChannel that implements ActivityPub, but I honestly don’t see the point. What would federation add to the chan experience? The boards on 4chan were almost separate websites anyway. There are no accounts. There is no interaction across threads. The only shared part is the UI. So you could achieve basically the same thing if everyone hosted a single board with vichan.