4chan has become unbearable due to a ridiculous rule that, coupled with some of the worst choices in moderation staff, has turned even the slower, thematic boards into some of the least free-speech-friendly places on the internet. And when I’m saying “free speech” I don’t mean slurs or being mean to people in general, I mean expessing all kinds of opinions that local moderator might not like, most importantly discussing their unjustified actions regarding deleted posts and blocked users. Citing the rule that made this happen:
- Complaining about 4chan (its policies, moderation, etc) on the imageboards may result in post deletion and a ban.
So, I don’t know if you’re aware – and your client may work differently, if you’re not using a browser – but in the Lemmy Web UI, you can expand images that are directly posted by clicking on them.
Kbin/Mbin – I don’t know about piefed – supports arbitrary resizing of inline images as well.
Oh, yeah, that’s definitely a legit issue today here – you can link to other communities in a home-instance-agnostic way with the !community@instance syntax, but not to other posts or comments. You can link to one on a given instance but for people using a web browser, it’ll take other users following the link off their home instance. They can work around that on the browser side, but it’s a real limitation.
considers
Hmm. I don’t disagree that there is a cultural difference today between the Threadiverse and 4chan, but I’m also not sure how much of that is intrinsic to the platform, and how much of it is just what current users happen to be doing on currently-popular communities.
Like, today, there are a lot of furries, LGBTQ+ crowd, Linux users, video game players, and left-wing politics. Oh, and there’s the piracy crowd. I guess maybe one could argue that the higher bar to use the thing maybe favors more Linux users or something, but I don’t think that it’d apply to the other things. I think that a lot of that was just because there was a series of exoduses from Reddit that happened to include those users. The /r/piracy lead moderator left and a lot of people came with him. I think hexbear was the result of /r/ChapoTrapHouse being banned or something like that.
When I got onto Reddit, in the very early days, back when most of the content was just submitted by people who worked at the company and it was a single page – it was mostly people talking about programming languages – especially Lisp – and startups, because that’s what they were into. There were a lot of people talking about computer science.
I mean, your home instance is lemmynsfw.com – the content in most communities on that instance probably isn’t going to be mostly long, serious text discussions, like.
That being said, I can appreciate if what you’re wanting is a large pre-existing community of people already posting whatever content you’re after. Easier than growing one! But I couldn’t help but plug the Threadiverse, and I think that it avoids a lot of issues if you’re not happy with someone exerting centralized control over your content.
I’m sorry that I don’t have a specific imageboard in mind. But if you don’t get a good recommendation, I’m sure that there are lists of imageboards out there, and if you figure that you can probably get a good idea of the content within a couple clicks, it probably doesn’t take too long to skim a list.
kagis
https://imageboards.net/
If you figure that you can determine whether an imageboard meets your criteria in about 30 seconds of browsing it, even if the description of each isn’t enough, you should be able to hit all of those in about an hour and a half at maximum.