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Thank you for prematurely answering what the significance of all the hashtags meant. I've avoided the chans. Would you recommend them for anything that Lemmy doesn't do?
I don't actively use it, you can simply tell the # bit is a reply because sometimes the greentext screenshot has one of the strings of numbers highlighted and a comment pops up in an overlapping window.
I did visit it a few times over one summer as a kid, it wasn't good.
I found /sci/ the most interesting but iirc it had a lot of racism and was also elitist in favour of high functioning autistic people, and STEM majors. One short summer of 4chan usage essentially psyopped me into focusing in STEM stuff, and being a bit of an intellectual elitist, which probably wasn't best for me as a person.
4chan isn't a real "social" media like Lemmy. Its largely people posturing. Also it's a site of manipulation from Israel and Epstein's pals. Just, nah. If you wanted to go there to find alt viewpoints and culture, I think you can get everything you need from Twitter. Which I also don't use anymore because it's bad for me.
One problem with communities like 4chan and even twitter is that it uses the dynamic of "male club/friend group where people bully each other to intimidate them out of leaving or having independent thoughts."