• nandeEbisu@lemmy.world
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    15 hours ago

    Calling 4chan the most hateful site on the Internet ignores the fact that xitter is a thing.

    The kind of hateful rhetoric and grooming are not unique to 4chan, they happen on Facebook, discord, and roblox. 4chan has just been a minimally filtered representation of underground online cultures for decades now meaning it’s still just as much a font of creativity as it is a cesspool of internet refuse.

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      11 hours ago

      4chan has been mostly dead as a place of creativity for years. /b/ is mostly creepshots, AI generated porn, and a guy who has been spamming a picture inviting you to eat Andy Sixx’s shit for like 5 years now. /pol/ is basically Stormfront lite.

      /lit/ and /mu/ were some of the best parts of 4chan but are shells of their former selves, some of the sfw boards sometimes have things of value but it’s time to move on.

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      12 hours ago

      Just because you’re comfortable with racial and homophobic slurs in most posts, doesn’t mean it’s not hateful.

      I detest Elon and xitter as much as anyone, but there is zero comparison. If anything, it just shows how far you’ve gone.

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        4 hours ago

        I checked one of those site traffic estimators and got 2 to 2.5 mil monthly views for 4chan vs 120 mil for twitter. So if every single 4chan user was a nazi, it would only take about 2% of twitter being nazis to equal that. Seems like there might be more nazis on twitter these days tbh.

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          2 hours ago

          Maybe more, but every other post on xitter doesn’t use the n word. You cannot compare just numbers. Actions are key. 4chan is a cesspool.