Might be alone in this but I did appreciate 4chan for chatting about niche topics that don’t really work elsewhere. Reddit is just the same 3-5 topics over and over mixed with horny shit and you can’t really have a conversation on Twitter, so unless there’s some forum that’s been running for 20 years about your hyperfixation, 4chan was the best option. Gonna miss weekly manga dumps and some of the smaller videogame generals.
If 4chan had shut down a decade ago it might have been nice, since the culture was more confined to the website, but now even Hexbear has fucking wojaks so what’s the point?
Their culture sucks a lot worse than ours. It’s not as bad as 4chan proper (which I haven’t used in over a decade because of how bad it is) but there are enough endemic bad takes that I can’t stand leftypol either.
Might be alone in this but I did appreciate 4chan for chatting about niche topics that don’t really work elsewhere. Reddit is just the same 3-5 topics over and over mixed with horny shit and you can’t really have a conversation on Twitter, so unless there’s some forum that’s been running for 20 years about your hyperfixation, 4chan was the best option. Gonna miss weekly manga dumps and some of the smaller videogame generals.
If 4chan had shut down a decade ago it might have been nice, since the culture was more confined to the website, but now even Hexbear has fucking wojaks so what’s the point?
I liked the image board format. 4chan’s design with Hexbear moderation would be my ideal social media site.
is that not what leftypol is? idk I can’t stand the format
Their culture sucks a lot worse than ours. It’s not as bad as 4chan proper (which I haven’t used in over a decade because of how bad it is) but there are enough endemic bad takes that I can’t stand leftypol either.
I wonder to what extent the format itself informs how the culture develops.
Superstructure: website culture
Base: website format
And so was /g/, nothing new just the same shit over and over and over again
So was /lit, etc.