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Re: 4chan Sharty Hack And Janitor Email Leak

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Post by FMecha »

ArinaS wrote: post #246
doublerabbit wrote: post #221

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You mean an open-twitter clone that caters to a very niche set of individuals? A complex system to work with. I hate the whole gimmick of 150 character messages. That's not independent like the web was once. Discord makes you pay to upload videos, sounds and those were all existing on MSN, Yahoo, A!M for free. Everyone at my school knew of NewsGrounds, mySpace, BeBo, LiveJournal. Me and my friends had hosted ProBoard…

> " You mean an open-twitter clone that caters to a very niche set of individuals? " It's not just one instance and not even one frontend existing for what can be described as "fediverse". Decentralization is the whole point. > " a very niche set of individuals? " Everything depends on the instance you're using. Some of them, like mastodon.social, are very active, others are not. > " I hate the whole gimmick of 150 c…

There is a reason why common people picked Bluesky instead of the fediverse.

Re: 4chan Sharty Hack And Janitor Email Leak

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Post by throwanem »

lurk2 wrote: post #840
throwanem wrote: post #483

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> I've always felt that the 'there are only two internet cultures: 4chan and tumblr' has felt somewhat accurate. "Somewhat accurate" is exactly right. This formulation overstates the number of Internet cultures by one, in that the deepest and most shameful secret of both websites' most avid users is that they have always been both websites' most avid users. Other than that, there's nothing wrong with it.

> in that the deepest and most shameful secret of both websites' most avid users is that they have always been both websites' most avid users. This isn’t true at all.

> This isn’t true at all.

Many will say the same.

Still, both cohorts' language and behavior evince continuous cultural cross-pollination from around 2012 (at least; I wasn't paying serious attention much sooner), at a rate and scope both well in excess of broader culture's adoption of same as substantially attributable to either source.

That still has to be explained, and I would be curious how you do so, although you'll almost certainly prefer to keep trying to indict the factual claim.

Re: 4chan Sharty Hack And Janitor Email Leak

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Post by NoMoreNicksLeft »

jtvjan wrote: post #245
desumeku wrote: post #180

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4chan is more moderated than you'd imagine.

this might be conspirational thinking, but i don't think it's an accident that the site came out like this. yes, there's moderation, but the moderators are explicitly told to go easy on moderating racism[1]. it feels like once that kind of stuff isn't punished, it starts to snowball a change in the attitudes of the site as a whole. that's not to say stringent moderation doesn't make a site less welcoming, though. it'…

>but the moderators are explicitly told to go easy on moderating racism[

What would be gained if they didn't "go easy on racism"? Would we all start singing kumbayah and love each other, hippy-style? Or would people be just as racist even more remote corners of the internet/world, and then slightly-left-of-center-minded individuals could pretend that all the world's problems were solved and it could continue for another 100 years?

Re: 4chan Sharty Hack And Janitor Email Leak

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Post by FMecha »

TheAceOfHearts wrote: post #23

There's a KnowYourMeme [0] post with additional details and context. Most interesting to me is finding out that there' s a word filer / transformer, so SMH becomes BAKA and TBH becomes DESU, as two examples. [0] https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/april-2025-4chan-hack

From what I heard, it was because they were tired of people posting "tbh fam". This does result in people instead posting "tbdesu" in being aware of the filter.

A note that the filter for "doublechan" was never updated to include its current name, nor the place where this current attack originated was ever filtered, afaik.

Re: 4chan Sharty Hack And Janitor Email Leak

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Post by ilikecakeandpie »

newZWhoDis wrote: post #460
1970-01-01 wrote: post #163

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This is a pretty good take! It's because you could verbally attack and fight the 4chan idiots with a swarm of common sense and be lauded for doing that job. Doing the same on X will just get you banned for whatever reason Elon feels is best 'for the community'.

Everything happens on X now. Even when I’m forced to go back to Reddit, all the niche subs I follow just post back to X links where the actual discussion is happening.

most of the niche subs I follow have banned X links, and every time I get on X I just see a bunch of bots or things I have no interest in

Re: 4chan Sharty Hack And Janitor Email Leak

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Post by zikduruqe »

SV_BubbleTime wrote: post #635
gopher_space wrote: post #603

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OTA firmware updates are so insane. Does your insurance company understand what’s going on?

There was a hack to a Cherokee featured in Wire years and years back. It was attributed to “two hackers”… yea my ass, I met both guys they knew surface level at best, these guys didn’t discover a flaw in Sprint’s network on their own. It was three letter agencies embarrassing the mfgs into “taking security more seriously” but conveniently also giving gov access, backdoors, and data on vehicles. Play the game or they’…

> There was a hack to a Cherokee featured in Wire years and years back

I discovered the vulnerability that lead to all that. I wish I could say more, but no one took it seriously.

Re: 4chan Sharty Hack And Janitor Email Leak

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Post by tovej »

NoMoreNicksLeft wrote: post #838
lurk2 wrote: post #811

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This used to be a selling point for me when I was younger, but increasingly I find myself not wanting to deal with poorly-moderated platforms. I can’t tell if it’s because the transgressive vulgarity that these platforms enable has lost its novelty as I’ve gotten older or because the median user has less to contribute. Every time I try to browse 4chan these days I find that half the posts are repulsive, basically por…

>There are a lot of people who have nothing to contribute to a conversation, While true, the few people who do have something to contribute to a conversation simply can't do so on a highly-sanitized, heavily-moderated forum. The things they'd say would be too upsetting to a status quo, and the status quo will win. There is a real difference between something truly insightful and flat earth theory, but outsourcing tha…

No moderation is still worse. It means that -- especially with 4chans activity-based thread sorting -- the most "engaging" (read: rage-inducing) content gets bubbled up without fail. AND that you can drive away all reasonable people with, e.g. gore or absolutely reprehensible political views. Views that are not only explicitly racist but genocidal. The board is called /pol/, but it doesn't actually discuss politics, it discusses racist or otherwise hateful worldviews. There's no serious policy discussion going on here. Let's not kid ourselves.

I was a regular in 2007-2010 on /g/, /sci/, /mu/ and /fa/. The boards had their share of trolling then, but were mostly alright. I cannot recognize the boards anymore. They are full of vile garbage. Nobody is interested in discussing the interests that the board is there for, they're just posting the most outrageous thing possible. It's slop for the brain just as much as any social media feed is.

Whatever communities I found on 4chan have managed to survive outside of it, and none of us go there anymore. I don't use reddit, but it is still 100x better than 4chan.

Re: 4chan Sharty Hack And Janitor Email Leak

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Post by lysp »

scryers_bloom wrote: post #69

We've heard it time and time again that 4chan is the so called "last bastion of free speech on the internet" when this so called free speech is just being unapologetically racist and antisemitic. I hope its gone for good.

> racist and antisemitic

There was a leak of the political channel by poster's country.

According to that post, the top posting country by far (226M posts) is also the same country that is at the receiving end of antisemitism.

Re: 4chan Sharty Hack And Janitor Email Leak

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Post by barbazoo »

Shekelphile wrote: post #594
SV_BubbleTime wrote: post #581

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>If cars (the non-software parts) were made like this, there would be millions of them breaking down by the side of the road daily. I’m an automotive CE… we’re getting there. Cars used to be DONE at lots… now, there are weeks to finish code before the customer lays hands on, and that time is factored in now. Worse with OTA updates. Now, so long as it’s fixed if enough customers complain that’s good enough. Cars used…

> Then some morons connected them to the internet for no good reasons. Elon Musk and Franz von Holzhausen, to be precise.

That was way before the musk rat.

Re: 4chan Sharty Hack And Janitor Email Leak

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Post by starfezzy »

PixelForg wrote: post #593
shipscode wrote: post #126

The take on 4chan on here is super intriguing. I always felt that the current social media/doomscroll/memesharing landscape which has become so common worldwide is indiscernable and in some ways worse than 4chan. It feels like 4chan left it's homepage and went worldwide sometime in the early 2010s when iPhone-style phone use became more commonplace. I remember that 4chan users had more honor than users on the interne…

My main problem with 4chan is how they talk, like the language they use. They really don't care about anyone's feelings and show a lack of empathy. Unfortunately this has been spreading to other social media as well. Imagine how good a place it could have been if people over there talked like people on HN.

3/10 troll

That's antithetical to many of the foundational rules of the internet, which are core to 4chan culture.

The whole point is that they don't let the fluctuating, weak-willed whims of normie sensibilities determine what's allowed.

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