this post was submitted on 27 May 2025
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I'm not very active on Mastodon, but saw this post - browsing the bluesky hashtag for a bit afterwards did not really give me much info. I can definitely imagine enshittification happening there, but what is causing the current drama in particular?

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[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

The hackers were alt right loons who were pissed that /qa/ (a “sfw” /b/ that was basically just a Nazi propaganda board) was taken down.

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Was 4Chan ever good? I remember not being too bothered by it way back, but I was probably just immersed in the Xbox lobby culture of 00s internet and didn't notice how toxic it was.

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 week ago

it had good bits among the bad, but it was lots of bad and the bad was REAL bad