I was never in 4chan, and it's only very recently I've found out that it isn't just a Nazi forum. Like, I legitimately thought it was just some far right wing forum. Like truth social is to Twitter, 4chan is to forums. I had no idea it had other content.

[–] cashsky@lemmy.world 48 points 2 months ago

Depends on what part of 4chan you find yourself in.

[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 29 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Imagine how much easier it is to astroturf when you don't have screennames or history to fake.

It becomes what someone with an agenda needs at the time.

[–] Tangent5280@lemmy.world 25 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It's also entirely useless for marketing or for selling anything, because it is infested with the kind of content that infests a place when there are no content restrictions, and will likely damage a brand more than it helps.

Also I'm pretty sure everyone there sees everyone else there the way you'd see vermin, as the literal dregs of society. Hard to astroturf when nobody reading has a thimble's worth of respect for you or what you say. Very self-aware kind of humor. I don't know how well astroturfing would work in 4chan for the major subset of the audience(The ones with a minimum of common sense).

[–] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 15 points 2 months ago

That second part is definitely true, 4chan is definitely well aware of what they are.

[–] Sabata11792@ani.social 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It’s also entirely useless for marketing or for selling anything, because it is infested with the kind of content that infests a place when there are no content restrictions, and will likely damage a brand more than it helps.

I genuinely think that's the only thing that kept 4chan around and pure for this long. It's too chaotic for enshittification as no business want to touch it, and their not interested in growth.

The astroturfing and botting is constant and prevalent but everyone is suspicious and hostile over everything that it's an instant shit slinging argument where no one is convinced. Hell, I would guess that half the fighting is bots with opposing agendas.

[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

It still got Trump elected, along with T_D and hyper vigilant moderating of contrary narrative.

[–] bund@sh.itjust.works 15 points 2 months ago

same here, but i know that the best of 4chan ended up here

[–] rambling_lunatic@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Blue boards are like 75% clean of Nazi filth. R9K is 60% clean. /pol/ has nothing but Nazi filth. It is the containment board. /b/ is just porn

[–] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Remember when /b/ was good?

[–] rambling_lunatic@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Fool! /b/ was never good.

[–] KingJalopy@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

Check out the normie

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

4chan is a multi faceted beast. Like an exquisite coprolite cut and polished by a master gem cutter.

[–] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 months ago

I miss mootykins