• antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    8 days ago

    it could be the result of the forum running on long-unpatched software dating back to 2016.

    It’s widely known that the current site owner doesn’t give a fuck about the site, and it’s de facto been led by the moderator “rapeape”. Sooner or later the site will die, financially it’s probably worthless, and I wonder where all those people will go. Maybe they could make a federated imageboard…

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      I don’t have much love for 4chan (I do like the curated green texts here, 5 minutes on the actual site was enough to never go back) but it makes me sad that a website is measured by profitability

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        TBH the impression I got from the greentexts that are posted on Lemmy and reddit is that they’re very inorganic, I believe many of them are written just to be reposted on reddit.

        Well of course lots of sites are kept up through sheer enthusiasm, but in this case I don’t think either the 4chan userbase or the owner actually like the site a whole lot. (Though maybe I’m just projecting my own frustration after having spent too much time on that site.)