Slurs
Slurs
Not sure if this is against the rules or not
The IPs of all janitors and admins have been leaked
4chan’s entire tech stack is built of outdated and insecure myPHP
Not sure where the source code is from but I think it’s the forum that did all of this in the first place
Of course its php
Nothing wrong with php, except not updating it.
That’s not a surprise, nor was it unknown. Pretty much all pre-“social media” discussion sites were PHP. Myspace probably was, too. PHP also isn’t intrinsically insecure, it just doesn’t lend itself very easily to security.
Wouldn’t the hackers be able to release more info about the infamous “Q”? Like IP address or something?
Q was 8chan
Qanon was a tripcode poster on /pol/, and a successor to the less famous FBIanon which was probably the same person.
The whole Qanon phenomenon is really fascinating because the actual Qanon poster stopped posting in like, 2018, but because boomers on Facebook don’t know how anything works they’d just keep circulating that “Qanon said such and such” to each other on Facebook. It stopped being anything said by a specific poster on 4chan and started to just become this strange ethereal concept.
it feels like this is big news but I can’t seem to get myself to care
This is a huge blow to the Russian misinfo machine, unironically. If its down for a while, it will have some big effects
Bullshit. Russia was certainly not targeting 4chan. If any russian agent was trying to push propaganda, he’d probably be drowned in “piss off faggot” responses lmao. Why would they even try to target a platform where 95% of the people are just shitposting as if their lives depended on it and 5% are mentally ill.
Not everything you don’t like is russian propaganda.
4chan is a hub for misinformation and conspiracies. Its full of racist, misogynistic, and overall hateful content. That content is not moderated at all how you think it is. It is a breeding ground of hate.
Disagree mostly - while there are those boards, like /pol/ or /b/, there’s also normal boards with … I wouldn’t say “normal” people, but relatively speaking, sane people.
That content is not moderated at all how you think it is
4chan is barely moderated.
It is a breeding ground of hate.
Overall, I saw a lot more hate on reddit than on 4chan. But mostly because I’m not a /pol/ user.
You forgot to list like eight other boards that have the most racist, the most sexist, the most rape promoting incels of all time
Reddit doesn’t compare at all
Idk, there were a lot of subreddits spewing hate, and they were online for years before public pressure mounted and they shut it down. Hell, we had shit like “abuseporn” which was online for over 4 years until it was randomly found by a journalist and then shut down lmao.
Youll never change my mind that the content on reddit was ever more cruel or unmoderated. And 4chan has been around MUCH longer than reddit.
