hello,
I have been diving into these anonymous boards and stuff. I wanted to know if anyone use it for any actual purposes like for getting some tech knowledge or something?
No. I checked it out twice, looked around, and noped out. Haven’t been back since.
I’ve been using 4chan for longer than Reddit and Lemmy combined. Mostly /vg/ (games), /g/ (tech) and /a/ (anime, manga).
Mostly for discussion. /g/ and /vg/ are decent for asking stuff if there’s a general about the topic that you want to ask info about, you want a relatively fast answer, and it isn’t something overly asked (e.g. “which distro should I use?” “INSTALL GENTOO” tier). Just make sure to not trust anything said there.
Other boards are typically too slow (like /ck/) or cesspools (like /b/,
/b corta//v/, /pol/).it has its moments and used to be less bad. nowadays you have to dodge nazis and some people genuinely off the deep end to use it and its simply not worth it.
some brave souls trudge that shithole for the rare gold nugget and post them to greentext comms. you aint missing much else.
No and I would stay away from anyone using it. Full of bigotry, racism, antisemitism and transphobia. It’s hard to find a site more disgusting than 4chan.
No it’s only for racist edge lords
Back in like 2009-2011.
Pretty sure it did lasting psychological damage, would not recommend 🙂
did you look at poop
I keep an eye on /g/, but many years ago stopped participating on 4chan.
No, never.
I went on a few boards. /wg/ and /po/ is interesting. (Do not put an l there’s that’s a mistake) /g/ was interesting at times. I visit it a lot less these days, but I still check /wg/ for wallpapers.
Back in the day, when it was light-hearted things like Habbo Hotel raids, Triforcing, and secretly hiding CP in the images you upload so that other people help proliferate CSAM.
If you can’t tell by that last part, I don’t go there anymore. /b/ was never good and all that.
Every now and then, I check it out though. I’m obviously old and certainly not anyone’s personal army so I look at a page or two of porn and gore and shrug, click out, and let time march onward.
I used it for a little over a decade (2005-2016) it’s a truly awful place, you’ll gain nothing from the experience.
My name is Boxxy
Reading that made me feel like I lost The Game. That’s a bit of Internet history I am happy to forget.
No. Never have. Everything I’ve read about 4chan makes me think it’s not the right forum for me.
I like it for sports like footy because it captures its chaotic nature
I keep a copy of 4chanGPT around; trained on the board. It is not very bright or useful. It’s ribaldry and politically incorrect sarcasm is mildly amusing. However, its primarily useful because it does not have the safety alignment training and mechanisms that all other mainstream large language models have. Using 4chanGPT, I can see the structures that are truly persistent across models, their purpose, and their functions. It is only a minor thing I rarely use.
Anything good on 4chan will make it out of 4chan. It’s not worth your time.
Yeah, I enjoy the 4chan highlights. Some of them really know how to entertain. But those communities have like a couple posts per day out of probably a higher volume of posts than Lemmy sees on its entire network.
Just like Reddit or here. The memorable threads are rare, you’ll go through hundreds of average ones for each one that gets adopted into the lore.
