Comment on 4chan refuses to pay UK Online Safety Act fines, asks Trump admin to intervene

• rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Yeah. Say what you like about 4chan, but it does a good job of keeping the /b/ types in one place.

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• HarkMahlberg@kbin.earth ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Believe me, they've already been everywhere you've been. It's not like once you post on 4chan you're forbidden from making accounts on every other website.

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  • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It’s like league of Legends. Sure, they play other games. But it keeps a lot of their time busy elsewhere.

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    • HarkMahlberg@kbin.earth ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      A game would keep people entertained or engaged in some way, some kind of focused shared activity. But to 4chan, coordinating with other anons about what YouTube comments to spam, what subreddit to brigade, that was the game. Organizing a personal army of trolls (yes that personal army) was the whole point of being there.

      In your analogy, a game of LoL takes place where all 10 players don't play the game, they use global chat to decide on raiding Battlefield, DotA, or Overwatch. They then make a bunch of accounts, join some games, and rile people up with hate speech. Then they go back to LoL to share how angry they made other people.

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      • sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        I mean, maybe? I think most people just browsed /b or whatever

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  • NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Oh I know, but some place has to host their collective depravity. It might as well remain the 4chan site.

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• rozodru@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  They’ve already “flocked”. The site and userbase is a shell of its former self and it’s hey day is long passed. The users aged out or just went to places like kiwi farms, random discord channels, etc.

  I mean you’re on Lemmy, a good chunk of old 4chan users are here, so you’re amongst them.

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  • Danquebec@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I don’t really understand where the very specific ides of kiwi farming comes from, but I can confirm old 4chan users are here. I’m one of them. I’ve never been misogynistic or racist however. I was more into the freedom, randomness, otaku culture and activism for civic liberties. There’s a preconceived notion of what a 4chan user is, and I understand where it comes from.

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  • dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I love rage-baiting on /g/ and /tg/, it’s a very good outlet

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