Message from @Scarlet
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(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.
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
It being popular would defeat the point in some ways
/b/ and /pol/ are both the most populated boards
and the most abrasive
The other boards require you to skim through and find them
But /tg/, the anime boards, the porn boards, /v/ to a decent extent, and a few of the other misc ones
Are all quite friendly
remember when /b/ was good?
No?
I mean, i guess i remember when it was better.
But /b/ was always a bit too much shitposting for me