I think a little clarification is needed. No. I don’t actually think everyone there is insane. I don’t care about the bans so stop trying to use that. HB enthusiasts coming here and trying to call me out achieves nothing besides proving my point

Edit: Feel free to keep trying to brigade me. It’s not going to scare me to take this down

      • cheeseburger
        217·
        10 days ago

        On 4chan people refer to “containment” boards for topics that are racist, inflammatory, or regularly derail conversations (ex. pol, b, mlp). That way the people who want that aren’t always polluting boards where people just want to talk about (for example) food or technology.

        So I was half joking that hexbear is like a containment board. It isn’t quite the same, but since other Lemmy instances can block hexbear all at once it has the same effect.

        • EABOD25@lemm.eeOPEnglish
          59·
          10 days ago

          That’s an understandable explanation. I’ve never been to 4chan because a person who attended it told me he would kick my 2 year old niece in the face and told me that’s a common belief there. Not flaunting, but I told him that no one would ever find his body if he did that.

          So I avoided 4chan because my crazy would probably cause conflict with their crazy

          Edit: this was in person btw

          • Delphia@lemmy.world
            101·
            10 days ago

            I remember 4chan when it was “good”

            Back then 4Chan was all about how funny your content was. Nationality, sexuality, gender, economic status… none of it mattered a bit.

            Its a cesspit now, but it was responsible for some truly epic shit.

            • SolOrion@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              5·
              9 days ago

              I’ve never really been on 4chan for any length, but I remember some of their greatest hits- managing to almost win a contest to name the next mtn dew flavor ‘hitler did nothing wrong’, or that one time they got Taylor Swift to do a show at a school for the deaf.

              Kinda edgy, extremely amusing.

            • PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee
              2·
              9 days ago

              When it was good?

              I was on 4 Chan 20 years ago and even back then it was full of gore, snuff type photos and CP. It was and always will be a cesspool.

              • Delphia@lemmy.world
                22·
                9 days ago

                Yeah about 20 years ago.

                The vibe was different, it was racist, sexist, bigoted and homophobic jokes. Now it feels like a bunch of racists sexists bigots and homophobes telling jokes. Nobody cared about who anyone really was, it was a shittalking shitposting competition. At some point it stopped feeling like bantz, it just started to feel ugly.

                Maybe I just grew up a bit, but I at least remember it being that way.

                • Trainguyrom@reddthat.comEnglish
                  2·
                  9 days ago

                  it was racist, sexist, bigoted and homophobic jokes

                  I feel like the world grew up and accepted that these jokes aren’t funny, but the small subset of people who are actually bigoted ignored the memo. But there is definitely a growing up element to it as well