I visit 4chan several times a day, though I use Lemmy more.
Edit: I now only visit it a few times a month.
Never
Literally never in my life
I have successfully not visited it for, I think multiple decades now.
I haven’t been on 4chan since like 2011
Zero times. If it’s worth looking at it’ll make its way eventually to another platform that’s less of an ass fissure
Absolutely never.
Why would I want to lower my faith in humanity more?
rock bottom should be the default
4chan died about 2010. After that the ratio of idiots vs people role-playing as idiots tipped and it never tipped back.
I think this is it more or less.
It felt like fun freedom to have a communicative realm with no rules, guidelines, morals at all. But in hindsight I guess it was fine for me because I had a moral compass and intellect so mad-max-land allowed me to re-explore my limits and opinions on my own, like from point zero, without preexisting structure (wich is always present if there is any decency).
For some, apparently, that was not fine. Like they didn’t catch themselves in the freefall of morals and epistemology that comes with the 4chan credo of “everything here fake and foolish…”. Or maybe it’s that some don’t have a corrective social realm outside 4chan, able to get them back to the ground. And those ones overtook. (Maybe cause the other ones are done playing edge walk after a while).
Tl;dr: had fun, learned some, feel a bit bad now
I used 4chan daily from 2005 to around 2013. It just doesn’t have the vibe it used to, or maybe I’m just getting old.
Cuz it’s not the same without mootykins
Moot? That newbie ruined 4chan forever since he joined it! :^)
Shitty jokes aside, I didn’t notice too much of a change with the moot→hiro transition. Most negative changes in the “vibe” there predate hiro for me.
Once every few days? And only very specific boards: /a/, /vg/ and /g/. Mostly /vg/, it’s actually decent-ish to talk about games.
I used to be a fairly active 4chan user a decade or so ago. In fact I learned about Reddit from 4chan. However the place became a shadow of its former shelf once it allowed stormfront trash to join in. Picture related:
Couple that with the fact that 4chan ended infested with the same sort of assumptive trash as Reddit, that is also currently infesting Lemmy, and that I don’t… really fit there any more. (That has political implications, but it is non-political and orthogonal to politics in nature.)
Never have, never will.
I used to when I was in my teens, when 4chan wasn’t as “well known” by so many people. It was definitely wild then. Now I don’t really have the desire to browse there or anywhere else besides Lemmy
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0 times per year.
The interface sucks. Never
Sometimes I remember it exists and is vaguely legit to visit, and that there are other sections besides /b. I think maybe I go there for about an hour once a year.
