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It stopped being relevant because its content became acceptable on major social networks, beginning in late 2022.
by bentlegen 1y ago
It stopped being relevant because its content became acceptable on major social networks, beginning in late 2022.
- firesteelrain 1y agoWhat content in particular?
- lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 1y agoThe stuff that Free Speech Absolutists like to say on twitter, judging by the date they included. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acquisition_of_Twitter_by_Elon_Musk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acquisition_of_Twitter_by_Elon...
- watwut 1y ago[flagged]
- PicassoCTs 1y agoListen. The lies, the culture relativist lies, they are so tiresome. We now all have ghaza at home- and we see through it all now. You do not have the slightest idea of the world, you just have that approximation made out of your own feelings and you yank on all social levers to make it real. Im sorry the world made you unable to appreciate complexity and handle it especially when its hostile to western values. But the grown ups have to clean up your mess now. Why not go and play in your corner, with the other problems, you could play "nazi and revolutionary" all day long. Thank you..
- dmonitor 1y agoracism
- ux266478 1y agoMajor social networks aren't even remotely close to being in the same niche. There are no algorithms, no friction with accounts, no obtrusive interfaces or feature bloat, no likes, no post ratings, content is completely ephemeral. This is a common and fundamental misunderstanding I see people make when trying to understand why 4chan exists. The people who post on 4chan aren't doing it because they can't help but post edgy content, they're doing it because its web 1.0 approach to social media completely erases a whole load of annoyances and anti-patterns that are endemic in the modern web. Just like Usenet, it will probably never die despite the antisocial controversies. Or at least in the case of 4chan, it will be replaced with another board-type system. As Twitch streamers are the contemporary version of AM radio, 4chan is the contemporary version of BBSes. You should be extremely skeptical of the idea that you could ever compete in the same space with a heavily commercialized product like a modern social network. Twitter is not a replacement, it never will be.
- dkiebd 1y agoMost people in websites like HN have absolutely no idea what 4chan is, how it works, and what kind of things people post in there. It shows because every time you read a comment here about 4chan you are confused as to what website they may be talking about.
- OldfieldFund 1y agoTwitter is really not far from 4chan in 2025.
- dmonitor 1y agoThat's understating it. They're practically the same at this point, 4chan just has fewer bots.
- hellojesus 1y ago4chan doesn't manipulate the feed, so far as I know. Nor does it require a phone number to use. It blocks mainstream vpns, but that's about it. Behind the scenes, who knows, but it's not as obviously full of low effort bait as Twitter, and no account is necessary.
- catsma21 1y agothere's more boards than just /b/
- LAC-Tech 1y ago4chan is to Twitter what Reddit is to Hacker News.