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4chan will refuse to pay daily online safety fines, lawyer tells BBC

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411 points donpott | 8 comments | 22 Aug 25 10:02 UTC | HN request time: 0.002s | source | bottom
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sunshine-o ◴[22 Aug 25 10:15 UTC] No.44982749[source]▶
I assumed 4chan didn't exist anymore and it was renamed/replaced by another board... Great advertisement.

The UK acts like a madman on fire trying to attack everybody.

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bentlegen ◴[22 Aug 25 12:32 UTC] No.44983763[source]▶
It stopped being relevant because its content became acceptable on major social networks, beginning in late 2022.
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ux266478 ◴[22 Aug 25 15:23 UTC] No.44985741[source]▶
Major social networks aren't even remotely close to being in the same niche. There are no algorithms, no friction with accounts, no obtrusive interfaces or feature bloat, no likes, no post ratings, content is completely ephemeral. This is a common and fundamental misunderstanding I see people make when trying to understand why 4chan exists. The people who post on 4chan aren't doing it because they can't help but post edgy content, they're doing it because its web 1.0 approach to social media completely erases a whole load of annoyances and anti-patterns that are endemic in the modern web.

Just like Usenet, it will probably never die despite the antisocial controversies. Or at least in the case of 4chan, it will be replaced with another board-type system. As Twitch streamers are the contemporary version of AM radio, 4chan is the contemporary version of BBSes. You should be extremely skeptical of the idea that you could ever compete in the same space with a heavily commercialized product like a modern social network. Twitter is not a replacement, it never will be.

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1. dkiebd ◴[22 Aug 25 16:45 UTC] No.44986703[source]▶
Most people in websites like HN have absolutely no idea what 4chan is, how it works, and what kind of things people post in there. It shows because every time you read a comment here about 4chan you are confused as to what website they may be talking about.
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2. OldfieldFund ◴[22 Aug 25 17:03 UTC] No.44986956[source]▶
Twitter is really not far from 4chan in 2025.
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3. dmonitor ◴[22 Aug 25 17:33 UTC] No.44987289[source]▶
That's understating it. They're practically the same at this point, 4chan just has fewer bots.
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4. hellojesus ◴[22 Aug 25 18:41 UTC] No.44988182{3}[source]▶
4chan doesn't manipulate the feed, so far as I know. Nor does it require a phone number to use.

It blocks mainstream vpns, but that's about it. Behind the scenes, who knows, but it's not as obviously full of low effort bait as Twitter, and no account is necessary.

5. numpad0 ◴[22 Aug 25 18:49 UTC] No.44988303[source]▶
Always has been. A lot of prominent Twitter accounts in my primary language, especially the old ones, has telltales of having been on 2chan. net. There must be something to that format that installs a basic social media amplification skill in your brain that do not develop otherwise.

There are places more toxic than 4chan but skill levels don't compare, and 4chan and 2chan also share nothing culture wise, so it must be in the architecture.

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6. ACCount37 ◴[22 Aug 25 19:06 UTC] No.44988535{3}[source]▶
My guess would be that to be on 2chan/4chan "back in the day", you need to be terminally online. And being terminally online is a soft prerequisite to being really good at posting interesting things online. Excellence isn't an act - it's a habit.
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7. numpad0 ◴[22 Aug 25 19:41 UTC] No.44988943{4}[source]▶
There was also 2ch. net that was a lot bigger, but 2ch "alumni" aren't as good. It's not just cohort, it has/had better action-reward loop than other systems.
8. PicassoCTs ◴[23 Aug 25 11:17 UTC] No.44995120{3}[source]▶
Its the fleetingness as a filter. If you are not catchy and repeated by others- its gone. instantly. No coming back.