4chan was hating on Reddit before it was cool
this post was submitted on 05 Sep 2024
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Yeah but what good has ever come from 4chan?
Always seemed like a place for people to be subversive and provide a haven for hate and degeneracy.
Reddit is cool?
I think they meant that hating on reddit is cool.
Ah, the ol’ lemmy switcheroo!
updoots encourages circlejerk
I mean, making a post about hating on Reddit, on Lemmy, is pretty circlejerky too at this point.
I mean, making a post about hating on Reddit, on Lemmy, is pretty circlejerky too at this point.
There's a key difference, at least when it comes to hating Reddit.
Most [all?] users here have actual, informed reasons to hate Reddit, from past experiences with the site. They aren't simply joining some bandwagon due to social expectations to bend to the crowd.
true.
anyway, fuck spez.
70 >:)
It's already dead. r/wholesomememes decided to allow only original content (no bots or reposts), and, after two days the only post was one begging human users to post anything original.
There are no users left. It's bots all the way through, like maggots in a rotting corpse.
Why is lemmy obsessed with talking about its ex
She did me dirty bro she deserves it
"ruins the Internet"? This coming from 4chan? That's rich
4chan doesn't nearly have the kind of traffic to ever have ruined the internet.
4chan, in part, ruined real life. So much of the initial meme buzz around Trump came directly from 4chan - god emperor, etc. /b/ and /pol/ had large coordinated campaigns to boost Trump for lulz and to fuck with people. These made the news occasionally and were sometimes quite wide-reaching. Edit: not to forget Qanon, pizzagate, etc.
Additionally, 4chan is responsible for a massive swathe of meme culture more broadly. Most people don't dredge its depths or even know "the hacker named 4chan" exists, but it has been a massively influential force.
There have been dark corners of the internet for several decades now. 4chan is just one. Trump didn't achieve popularity because of it. There aren't enough users, and there certainly aren't enough politically and economically influential users, for that to be true.
Whenever I stumble on reddit I make sure to post disinformation or some kind of dumb shit to throw a wrench into the LLM training data they sell to google.
"Ruins the internet"
I happen to remember the forum culture of the mid-late 2000s. It wasn't that great.
Wish I could experience it
I miss the IMDB discussions under each film..
Was great to finish a film and have a question or and ideas and be able to talk about it.
It's not exactly a replacement, but TV tropes provides a lot of satisfaction on this front.
Abandon all hope ye who enter there!
I'd argue discord is even worse.
It's a toss up, for me. Both managed to capture all discussion on major open source projects.
Id say discord is a good place for already enstablished friend groups to hang out
It's an excellent chat program (except it's pretty buggy on mobile). But it doesn't function well as a forum replacement. The lack of discoverability is a big problem.
Yeah.. shooting some nonsense back and forth. But game devs that shoehorn stuff into discord making everything objectively worse while making everything unfindable.. it drives me nuts!
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