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For those of you that haven't seen, 4chan was hacked:
https://boingboing.net/2025/04/17/4chan-hacked-obliterated-and-unlikely-to-be-back-soon.html
A deadly blow? Will a copycat spring up? Where are the users going in the meantime? Does any of this really matter?
I hope not.
But I hope it does spring up somwhere again.
I need my WHFB talk and my Warhammer pdfs.
it won't be. too confusing for everyday people lol
Why would it go away completely? Why wouldn’t they plug the hack and continue on as they were before? Getting hacked doesn’t typically kill a service unless there was data deleted and no recovery option available.
It's unclear if they even can plug the many security vulnerabilities that are now public information. The leaked source code reveals that the site hasn't been updated at all since the new owner took over.
My understanding from the articles I read is that the whole platform ran on PHP 5.5, and porting from a version that old to current is no small task.
The 8 Chan guys will complete the takeover. The Nazis will stay.
The people that want to continue participating in imageboard culture will migrate to one of the alternatives/older ones like 2channel or krautchan.
Edit: I miss some of the dead alternatives like 420 or brit
Twitter, of course. Elon's already made it quite comfortable for them over there.
Where are the refugees going?
lemmy.4chan.xyz
I was the person who wrote all the posts, now looking for freelance work.
Aha! You were the hacker known as "Four Chan"!
Outside, hopefully.
Snark aside, 4chan was once hugely influential to internet culture and humor, but that era was long, long, long ago. When 4chan became the breeding ground for the alt-right, that thoroughly infected the site so badly that everyone else was driven off. There is nothing of value left on that site, and its death is a net positive for the world.
Of course other imageboards still exist, but I don't think any of them will ever be as big as 4chan was. I hope that none of them become that big.
Even if it is over a decade late, we should pour one out for old 4chan. It was never a great place, but what happened to it is a huge shame. If this really is the death knell, I wanna remember it as the weird anarchic slice of the Internet it was, rather than the Nazi bar it got turned into.
One of the functions it served was containment... now picture everyone on there spread out on the open net.
As I said in another comment below
'Containment' doesn't work. That was the reason /pol/ was created, but all that did was rapidly radicalize the userbase, which then spread back to the other boards.
Giving them a dedicated space to radicalize people doesn't mean that the people who get radicalized will never leave that space. Because not only did it spread back to the other boards, it spread outside 4chan. The rise of the alt-right can be directly traced back to Steve Bannon recognizing 4chan as the ideal target to start radicalizing users there. And now look at where the alt-right is today. It's not an exaggeration to say that this is a large part of how we got Trump.
Containment was a myth. They've been everywhere else the whole time. They're just forced to keep quiet on sites with moderation. This is only positive
we're all moving to Truth Social.
Bye!
there exists tons of image boards already, if one dies people move into others.
A deadly blow?
I hope so.
Will a copycat spring up?
History says yes, but if a loving god truly exists, one won't.
Where are the users going in the meantime?
Hopefully outside.
Does any of this really matter?
Only if they bring their bullshit to the fediverse.
History says yes, but if a loving god truly exists, one won’t.
Trump is president. Clearly there is no loving god.
If a loving god ever existed they died before humanity made it to the stage.
I think Lemmy is easier to manage getting rid of any BS. Even if they do bring BS to Lemmy, they won't last.
If they do, hopefully they flock to a single instance which is easily blockable
That was what I was going to say. Then, we can isolate them. Or any community that tries to corrupt Lemmy like reddit.
And it’s easy to block them and their communities
I think we need a place to contain 4chan users lest the rest of the internet be potentially exposed to one.
'Containment' doesn't work. That was the reason /pol/ was created, but all that did was rapidly radicalize the userbase, which then spread back to the other boards.
Upstairs
Welcome to lemmy you filthy animals lol