yeah look at all the wonderful things they created
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solrize@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I still say 4chan was ahead of us give. No handles, just a big mix of unknowns.
jimmy90@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Walk_blesseD@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Handles do exist, they’re just optional and most channers don’t use them.
lurch@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
they always seemed to me like a temporary way to ensure nobody creeps in when you do somethjng like exchange contact details etc…
justsomeguy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It was also raw as fuck. That allowed for some very honest interactions but also introduced a shitload of trash to filter through. Then the whole political influx came in a decade ago and fully ruined it. lemmy seems like a good middle way. no senseless karma farming but also some tools to moderate.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Was? Is.
justsomeguy@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s pretty much dead to me. I know it was always ass but at some point the OC/spam ratio gets too bad to bother. Lost memes were a good time. Now I’d have to sift through 80 incels calling eachother tranny to find a single post with a shred of an original thought behind it. Eh, maybe it’s the same and I just got too old for it. Doesn’t matter in the end.
JudahBenHur@lemm.ee 2 months ago
you just outgrew it. same shit, different words of the day
Mubelotix@jlai.lu 2 months ago
Yeah you can definitely be anonymous here. Accounts and even instances are easy to create. I like the result