But sometimes it brings out the best

I always got the impression 4 chan tries to be the worst part of humanity at all times.

"humor is edgy" as they say.

So they take it to the extreme where it's probably a bit too far.

4chan is a lot of things

There's alot of shit to search through, but /b/ and /pol/ are the face of 4chan

/b/ is classic.

and give it a somewhat undeserved reputation

The origin of modern internet culture.

The smaller boards are really chill

8chan is mostly the exodus that happened after moot decided to be a cunt

(Moot was the guy that owned 4chan)

Changed his tune, started censoring certain boards

After gamergate if I recall

Yeah, not too long after

it was somewhat related

Moots fault for hanging out alongside the rich left

/v/ and /pol/ got hit the hardest with the censoring

calling it left or right in any way wasnt something you saw back then

Hm. I get the impression the majority of people are on Reddit now.

Which kinda scares me given how easily manipulated it is.

Reddit is way more populous then the chan boards

And therefore the closer to average internet savvy person

The chan's are just backwaters, thats been mostly true since ive been around to observe them

Reddit is something like the 8th most popular website worldwide.

Reddit is really common, almost entry level internet

It's massive. And ripe for all sorts of abuse.

4chan is structured in a really old, not very user friendly way

4chan *is* old.

It is.

And it wasn't really meant to be user friendly either.

Correct.

Reddit was specifically designed to be clean and self-organizing.

And well, it kinda forms a shield

8chan could be described as 'self organizing'

4chan being so unfriendly

Its like a gauntlet getting in

The way it works is literally anybody

can decide they want to make a board

Like how you can make a thread on reddit

Also, 4chan in alot of ways is meant to be unfriendly