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[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 67 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I will always believe 4chan was a USAID operation.

[–] eyyImwalkin@hexbear.net 28 points 2 months ago

it may have been, but even if it was it didn't need to be

[–] rootsbreadandmakka@hexbear.net 46 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If this happened in like 2016 or earlier I’d be celebrating. At this point it’s bled into the real world so much does this really mean anything. My Instagram explore page might as well be /pol/

[–] Damarcusart@hexbear.net 24 points 2 months ago

Yeah, they probably cut the funding because it has already served its purpose. More mainstream sites like Reddit and Twitter are basically just 4chan anyway.

[–] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 46 points 2 months ago

I aways love seeing the worst people in the world fight each other

[–] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 45 points 2 months ago (2 children)

oh no not the nazi site

where else will I be able to read race trutherism, slurs, and dehumanizing speech aimed at minority groups

I'll have to go all the way to reddit-logo for that now

[–] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 36 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I was gonna say Twitter too

[–] Adkml@hexbear.net 19 points 2 months ago

Yea why would anybody need 4chan when Twitter is just 4chan but you can get paid to post slurs.

[–] eyyImwalkin@hexbear.net 19 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

4chan was better than stormfront in that regard because it was more honest, you could fight back without getting horde-downvoted, and the bans only lasted for a few days or a month tops

it was still ass for the fact that threads never got saved, and that they banned you at all (musta got 50 bans in total), and that all the cattle were unable to conceive of such a thing happening

oh well, I regret nothing

[–] Meltyheartlove@hexbear.net 34 points 2 months ago
[–] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 29 points 2 months ago (2 children)

4chan was useful for .pdf scans. I have a bunch of RPGs and wargames saved on my computer, plus a few regular novels. Not worth it to have all the bigotry and other garbage, though. As far as I can tell, a lot of the depositories are still up and running, including the Archive. The Warhammer and other Games Workshop drops are the only things that seemed to be down, but those are easy to find elsewhere like VK.

[–] RNAi@hexbear.net 52 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It was sure full of pdf files

[–] TheLepidopterists@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago

I'll still check newvola and the share thread rebrandly, but I'm assuming that without a place to gather the new submissions to those will slow a fair amount over time.

[–] SamotsvetyVIA@hexbear.net 29 points 2 months ago (1 children)

but my boymoder greentexts...

[–] Boynomoder@hexbear.net 18 points 2 months ago

I don’t know how I’m gonna cope without my fix doggirl-tears

[–] Parzivus@hexbear.net 28 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (5 children)

Might be alone in this but I did appreciate 4chan for chatting about niche topics that don't really work elsewhere. Reddit is just the same 3-5 topics over and over mixed with horny shit and you can't really have a conversation on Twitter, so unless there's some forum that's been running for 20 years about your hyperfixation, 4chan was the best option. Gonna miss weekly manga dumps and some of the smaller videogame generals.

If 4chan had shut down a decade ago it might have been nice, since the culture was more confined to the website, but now even Hexbear has fucking wojaks so what's the point?

[–] Carl@hexbear.net 22 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

I liked the image board format. 4chan's design with Hexbear moderation would be my ideal social media site.

[–] Enjoyer_of_Games@hexbear.net 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

is that not what leftypol is? idk I can't stand the format

[–] Carl@hexbear.net 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Their culture sucks a lot worse than ours. It's not as bad as 4chan proper (which I haven't used in over a decade because of how bad it is) but there are enough endemic bad takes that I can't stand leftypol either.

[–] Enjoyer_of_Games@hexbear.net 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I wonder to what extent the format itself informs how the culture develops.

[–] Leegh@hexbear.net 7 points 2 months ago

Superstructure: website culture

Base: website format

[–] Parzivus@hexbear.net 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

In the same way that Hexbear was formed from Reddit refugees, leftypol was formed from 8chan refugees, and 8chan was probably the worst large site on the internet while it was operational. I don't hate leftypol but I have a pretty thick skin, wouldn't expect most people to want to deal with that culture

I think I remember there being ideas of a hexbear adjacent image board in the youth of the site but that never panned out sadly

[–] Super_Lumalo@hexbear.net 18 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Reddit is just the same 3-5 topics over and over mixed

And so was /g/, nothing new just the same shit over and over and over again

[–] SpiderFarmer@hexbear.net 5 points 2 months ago

So was /lit, etc.

[–] Parzivus@hexbear.net 4 points 2 months ago

I didn't use /g/ so I wouldn't know.
IMO the boards with generals or weekly threads were more tolerable. Less likely to have random people come in to shit stir, although it certainly still happens sometimes.

[–] krolden@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago

Sometimes /g/ had some good stuff, but yeah you're right

[–] TheLepidopterists@hexbear.net 18 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I'm still glad to see the people who used it regularly lose their digital hangout.

I will miss the tg PDF share thread, not aware of anything else that comes close in terms of organizing RPG and wargame piracy

[–] Biggay@hexbear.net 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Losing the /tg/ archive has been a tremendous loss for the TTRPG enthusiast community. I fucking loved reading random games in there or the weird supplements in it.

[–] TheLepidopterists@hexbear.net 5 points 2 months ago

Maybe people will keep donating to it. As long as the rebrandly stays up, the tg thread basically only exists for user support and content requests.

I tend to obsessively read a large number of these, like way more than I could possibly ever run, but the things I do run I buy because I don't want to lack a physical copy at the table, and everything I buy I pirated first because big ass books made on small production runs are expensive and I'm not buying something I don't know I can get to the table (or at least desperately want to get to the table).

[–] LisaTrevor@hexbear.net 2 points 2 months ago

r/TheTrove is trying to keep it going on a telegram group but i'm not noticing too much stuff you can't find elsewhere. only been up and running a day though

[–] Catfish@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 2 months ago

I was just thinking about this earlier today :(

[–] micnd90@hexbear.net 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Yes, there are some niche communities in /toy/, /ck/, /sp/, and /sci/ that I appreciated. It gives "old internet" vibe of niche hobby, slow forums instead of everything gets swallowed by the "everything app" that is reddit, Facebook and twitter.

Like for example, there is always thread about people showing photos and collection of their army men figures and dioramas. I personally don't collect them and don't participate in the discussions, but I like seeing people touch grass, play with army mens and post their photos posing the army men in their backyards, with sometimes hilarious scenarios and scripts. Same deal with /sp/, people coming together to dunk on Manchester United losing never gets old.

[–] bloubz@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don't personally use it but what about Tumblr?

There're also matrix spaces, sometimes

[–] Parzivus@hexbear.net 2 points 2 months ago

I never used Tumblr but my understanding is that it's more Twitter-esque in terms of interaction. Don't know anything about Matrix tbh

[–] Dessa@hexbear.net 24 points 2 months ago
[–] dead@hexbear.net 21 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The 4chan admins made a post on twitter alluding that it would come back. The thing is that the whole website source code got leaked, so they have to do like a heavy security audit or complete rewrite before they come back. The website was relying heavily on "security through obscurity" which is generally a bad practice. Unfortunately, I think they are trying to come back online.

[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What are the odds that this rewrite of the code will be led by a little known developer called ChatGPT?

YandreDev has offered to be lead developer

4cahnners hes been everywhere but 4chan the past 6 years so idk my man ,I don’t think it matters

Yeha but sharty did it so im not happy