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?
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
it won’t be. too confusing for everyday people lol
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.
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!
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‘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.
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
Didn’t Krautchan die 5 years ago or so? To be replaced by Kohlchan?
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
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.
There’s an entire instance full of them here. It’s called HilariosChaos. Edgelords abound!
They’re not 4channers and I find Alice the instance amin quite nice.
Agree to disagee.
Do you have any examples? We can just agree on this one if true lol
I have one example that I think is pretty solid:
HilariousChaos.
I meant specific examples. But yeah, agree to disagree, then lol
The instance serves as an example unto itself. It’s widely known to be a troll instance. I don’t really know what else to say.
Time for a fediverse alternative for 4chan! /s
They should call it fedchan.
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
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I love how the last comment on it, if it doesn’t come back will be “chicken jockey”.
I’ve seen some in the comment sections on Lemmy, but the brunt is probably going to tarnish reddit, as they’ve done it already when they werent on 4chan.
Twitter, of course. Elon’s already made it quite comfortable for them over there.
What will happen to greentext groups etc?
I know right? Who will we make fun of now without any shame? Other than magats and news anchors.
Make fun of the obese trannies on Bluesky crying about fascism because their “NGO” got defunded and now they have to rely on daddy again to pay for their rent.
Lemmy maybe
