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It's not even remotely the biggest image board. The biggest image board is Instagram or Pinterest or some site like that.
this is like saying a hovercraft is a car because it's a personal transportation vehicle.
If it's such a clear disparity then explain to me how Pinterest isn't an imageboard?
First off, there's no anonymous posting, and barely any anonymous reading
Lol "4chan is the biggest website out of all the websites identical to 4chan"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imageboard#Tripcodes
I have used a variety of imageboards, and looked into their history. Instagram isn't a fucking imageboard.
That has nothing to do with whether a site is an imageboard. Obviously there are a zillion differences between 4chan and Pinterest, but none that make Pinterest not an image board
I think in this subculture "image board" now refers specifically to 2ch-style platforms such as 4chan, not to any type of platform where you can post images
ikr, like as if any sane person would call lemmy or insta an image board, or put them in the same category as 4chan just because you can post image
"tomato is a fruit ☝️🤓" ass comments in this post, man
what do words even mean? let's make them mean everything so that we can't use them now
None of those are imageboards
They are imageboards. Just because their layout is slicker than imageboards used to look like 25 years ago doesn't make them not imageboards
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english/imageboard
Neither is 4chan
But it is ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I'll hear you out if you care to elaborate though.
Tell that to all the text that comprises most content in every board. Calling it more of an imageboard than sites that devote almost-all of every page to images is backwards. 4chan is a forum or BBS-minus-dial-in with delusions of grandeur.
I love it for what its for, but "imageboard" really ain't it, and has never been what it was known for. Might as well preach the glory/legitimacy of Pepe NFTs as that narrative.