Anyone can manipulate it

/b/ is a shitshow, always will be.

That's the idea with Reddit.

I once got a bag of chips to the frontpage of r/donald

By myself

But it collapses much the same way wikipedia does. A sufficiently large organized group can potentially cause signficant damage.

It's so easy

Someone brought up my karma on Reddit, but I am mostly like I don't really need to feel like society approves of what I think

Alot of inertial effects and things can give organized entities disproportionate power.

Common public is dumb af

Yeah, Karma is really a game to try and incentivize people to use the platform.

It's like levels in Discord. A skinner box of worthless rewards.

The chan boards are unique in some ways though, people act differently when they dont have a name, or any sort of reputation to worry about

Sometimes it brings out the worst

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.