It’s not a comment ID number, it’s saying there’s basically “a gazillion instances”. It’s making a joke about Lemmy but just in greentext.
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squiblet@kbin.social 9 months agoI was using 4chan in 2008. You don't need to explain greentext to me. But that's not a greentext story, it's a reply that quotes someone else's post, which is why it has a comment ID number.
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 9 months ago
I went and found the thread for us, it’s just greentext, no quoting, it’s the second message and just clowning on Lemmy
4chan chat in question
boards.4chan.org/g/thread/98011228
squiblet@kbin.social 9 months ago
That’s some dedication! Okay. I’ll accept I am incompetent.
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 9 months ago
I was starting to doubt myself so I had to check, haha.
squiblet@kbin.social 9 months ago
I originally read it as just saying 'different instances' and not stating a number of different instances. But that's not the format 4chan uses for a quote reply (I don't remember, isn't there a number sign or something?) and that number would be way too large for a comment ID. So, yeah. I didn't consider that someone could actually go there and find the post since I think of 4chan as /b where it all disappears after 2 hours.