/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

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

it was a meme 😛

lawl. So random.

Oh, i see.

That memes kinda true though.

uncultured heathans... 😦

I'll admit I missed the bus on most early internet culture.

Only ever got really slow dialup with the local phone company and never really got on any of the really interesting sites.