I visit 4chan several times a day, though I use Lemmy more.

Edit: I now only visit it a few times a month.

  • Eddie Trax@dmv.socialEnglish
    30·
    10 months ago

    Zero times. If it’s worth looking at it’ll make its way eventually to another platform that’s less of an ass fissure

  • bloopernova@programming.devEnglish
    27·
    10 months ago

    Like once a year or something.

    Too much manipulation by racists, nazis, and russia. All they have to do is tell 4chan that doing x/y/z will offend people, and suddenly they are a willing personal army.

    Back when stormfront said how easy it was to funnel chanfolk into their ideology, I honestly thought 4chan would break stormfront. I didn’t expect such enthusiasm for an ideology that would outlaw 4chan if it got enough power.

  • Lvxferre@mander.xyz
    141·
    10 months ago

    Once every few days? And only very specific boards: /a/, /vg/ and /g/. Mostly /vg/, it’s actually decent-ish to talk about games.

    I used to be a fairly active 4chan user a decade or so ago. In fact I learned about Reddit from 4chan. However the place became a shadow of its former shelf once it allowed stormfront trash to join in. Picture related:

    Couple that with the fact that 4chan ended infested with the same sort of assumptive trash as Reddit, that is also currently infesting Lemmy, and that I don’t… really fit there any more. (That has political implications, but it is non-political and orthogonal to politics in nature.)

  • Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    131·
    10 months ago

    I used 4chan daily from 2005 to around 2013. It just doesn’t have the vibe it used to, or maybe I’m just getting old.

      • Lvxferre@mander.xyz
        3·
        10 months ago

        Moot? That newbie ruined 4chan forever since he joined it! :^)

        Shitty jokes aside, I didn’t notice too much of a change with the moot→hiro transition. Most negative changes in the “vibe” there predate hiro for me.

  • 9point6@lemmy.world
    142·
    10 months ago

    4chan died about 2010. After that the ratio of idiots vs people role-playing as idiots tipped and it never tipped back.

    • kwomp@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      10 months ago

      I think this is it more or less.

      It felt like fun freedom to have a communicative realm with no rules, guidelines, morals at all. But in hindsight I guess it was fine for me because I had a moral compass and intellect so mad-max-land allowed me to re-explore my limits and opinions on my own, like from point zero, without preexisting structure (wich is always present if there is any decency).

      For some, apparently, that was not fine. Like they didn’t catch themselves in the freefall of morals and epistemology that comes with the 4chan credo of “everything here fake and foolish…”. Or maybe it’s that some don’t have a corrective social realm outside 4chan, able to get them back to the ground. And those ones overtook. (Maybe cause the other ones are done playing edge walk after a while).

      Tl;dr: had fun, learned some, feel a bit bad now

    • tal@lemmy.today
      21·
      10 months ago

      I don’t follow 4chan politics, but isn’t Pepe a /pol/ thing or something like that? I mean, 4chan’s got a number of different forums. That seems like saying that Reddit is X because of a particular subreddit, or the Fediverse is X because of a particular community/magazine.

      • Tramort@programming.dev
        3·
        10 months ago

        I see your point: pepe can be used for anything.

        But it’s so strongly associated with hate in my experience that I cannot see its use in an unbiased way.

        • felixwhynot@lemmy.world
          1·
          10 months ago

          There’s a documentary about Pepe and his creator, Matt Furie, called “Feels Good Man”. It’s worth a watch!

    • THE MASTERMIND@feddit.ch
      1·
      9 months ago

      I like pepe though there is one pic of him for most situation or you can make one easily and he is kinda funny ngl

  • CryptidBestiary@lemmy.world
    6·
    10 months ago

    I used to when I was in my teens, when 4chan wasn’t as “well known” by so many people. It was definitely wild then. Now I don’t really have the desire to browse there or anywhere else besides Lemmy

  • stackPeek@lemmy.world
    5·
    10 months ago

    None. I will never touch anything *chan

    2chan, 4chan, 5chan, and the other number I won’t even mention cuz I actually saw something very traumatizing there.