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?
What will happen to greentext groups etc?
The sharty and other imageboards. It’s virtually impossible for them to exist on fedi due to moderation, however they will probably create new chan instances, especially since I’ve seen them talk about lemmy before
They won’t join übercorp social media because they already look down upon it + half of them will be banned in less than a week
Lemmy maybe
Hopefully not here
I know it’s a tiny minority of their culture over there but I will miss seeing screenshots of their wholesome/poignant greentexts. I hope some of those robots move on and turn out ok
4chan died over a decade ago. What has been nuked there was its rotting carcass plastered with Nazi and MAGA shit.
It should never return.
Time for a fediverse alternative for 4chan! /s
They should call it fedchan.
Aren’t there similar websites like 8chan that serve the same purpose? I may be out of the loop but won’t they migrate there?
8ch×n is worse.
Not Lemmy, eh? Are you sure? You could be great, you know. It’s all here in your head. And Lemmy can help you on your way to greatness, there’s no doubt about that. No?
I think you’re misunderstanding octopus_ink’s comment. Are you thinking octopus_ink is a 4chan refugee? I think they’re just a Lemmy user hoping we don’t get flooded with 4chan assholes.
Joke ——->
You
I am aware of that. Thank you.
I just quoted the movie and changed Slytherin with Lemmy.
I thought it would be funny.
It worked. Some people had their sense of humor shot off in
highschoolelementary.Well if you’re sure,… Better be,… Tor!
I hope not.
But I hope it does süring up somwhere again.
I need my WHFB talk and my Warhammer pdfs.süring
hüh?
Whoops, typo.
German keyboard, the ‘ü’ is next to the ‘p’. Fixed now.I was trying to figure out what you meant, but never thought of spring.
It happens every year after winter.
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.
One possible reason I’ve read is that the people moderating it have had their identities leaked, so imagine being the person responsible for banning 4chan users and now also they know who you are, seems like a very unappealing thing to volunteer for.
They would need to rewrite it again, the release source code showed about of security flaws. If they’re just re upped it again it would be taken down by someone the sake day.
The current owner is not and has not ever been interested in maintaining it. He bought it to squeeze it of its worth and now that it’s suddenly going to cost a lot of money to bring back he probably just won’t.
That does leave the possibility of selling it to someone who does want to restore it.
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
I wonder if 7chan is still kicking. Back in my chan days, which were like 15 years ago now, yikes, I considered myself to be better than the average 4chan pleb because I used seven instead
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”!
