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 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
I think we need a place to contain 4chan users lest the rest of the internet be potentially exposed to one.
‘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.
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we’re all moving to Truth Social.
Bye!
there exists tons of image boards already, if one dies people move into others.
Time for a fediverse alternative for 4chan! /s
They should call it fedchan.
A deadly blow?
I hope so.
Will a copycat spring up?
History says yes, but if a loving god truly exists, one won’t.
Where are the users going in the meantime?
Hopefully outside.
Does any of this really matter?
Only if they bring their bullshit to the fediverse.
History says yes, but if a loving god truly exists, one won’t.
Trump is president. Clearly there is no loving god.
If a loving god ever existed they died before humanity made it to the stage.
I think Lemmy is easier to manage getting rid of any BS. Even if they do bring BS to Lemmy, they won’t last.
And it’s easy to block them and their communities
If they do, hopefully they flock to a single instance which is easily blockable
That was what I was going to say. Then, we can isolate them. Or any community that tries to corrupt Lemmy like reddit.
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.
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.
I love how the last comment on it, if it doesn’t come back will be “chicken jockey”.
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.
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 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.
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’re on the clearnet. Their identities are already known…
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.
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?
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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.
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
