4chan

Oh wow that's weird. I didn't know moot would ban people for fun himself. Gross

Do you have a better idea? I mean I eventually found Lemmy, 4chan I used because it's the only one I knew about and people told me they used it. Word of mouth can be bad sometimes

That's not the case here. Some people who aren't me brought up some things they noticed about living here online anonymously and hundreds of comments were basically just attacks and aggression. It's an anonymous forum, you can bring up how you're feeling as an expat. He obviously wasn't looking to start an argument, just find some connection or vent. I'm sure he's already aware not everyone feels the way he does.

The mod didn't like it.

maybe, but the rules were never like this. I've tried searching the web about people being unfairly banned and I barely found anything. They're definitely changing things.

It's messed up to get banned for life without any warning, explanation or second chances. Literally how would anyone know the rules have changed unless they read them every day?

It's gonna be hard for people to find out though, because most search results on Google are reddit ones, and people who go on 4chan are much more likely to be banned from reddit. So that's why I wanted to post this here. I know I'm not the only one and I suspect alternative websites will only grow in the future.

I've always seen 4chan as like a content generation white hole (made of poop ofc). From nothing, content spews forth and each tier of websites acts as a new filter as the content got safer or less dark as few and fewer memes got reposted. There used to be 4 tiers of how dark you liked your meme brew (4chan>reddit>twitter>Facebook)

Idk why I typed this up I should just hit the delete key this is outdated I have no idea how it works now. I've never used 4chan (or its doubling number clones) so it was always a mythical, forbidden place.

(Everything the light touches is our domain. What's that shadowy place over there? 4chan where you must never go)

I check in once a year or so, just to remind myself if the dregs of humanity are still hanging out there

If you want brain damage it’s the place to be!

no the website is just bots /s

I suppose there is a neverending stream of edgy teenagers

Where else will I find 'fitness buffs' eating gorilla kibble and discussing weighted swimming.

Fun fact: My teen now calls a weighted vest a lifn't jacket because of this.

You're not wrong but it doesn't make it less devastating. I've been using it for years and not even gotten banned a single time. And now in the past few weeks this, and then I check the rules and it all makes sense. I always saw it as a fall back option when I wanted to talk to someone. It used to be reddit but I got banned for some complete bs, it used to be discord but they totally ruined it too... Then I thought I at least had 4chan but no longer

Honestly, I suspect it might also have something to do with the specific board and thread I would frequent. That kind of makes it all the more messed up. If I had known this would or could happen I would've just stopped going there. But now that I think about it, it's probably the reason I got permabanned, by some power tripping mod from there.

fairly sure its original purpose was to share the kind of hentai that would get you banned from something awful

Yeah I’m sure that was it’s purpose when it was founded in 2003

It served it’s purpose getting MAGA elected.

yeah, that was moot's plan in 2003

I am not :/ I'm telling u guys this is definitely a recent thing. I don't exactly know what their motives are but it's kind of scary tbh