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[–] Naboo_calls_for_aid@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Probably true, I found my wife before dating apps were commonplace, just what I've heard from others my age, I can't imagine trying to date these days. Also kinda surprising 4chan is still around.

[–] Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Yea 4chan is worse than it used to. I browse the X board which is just supernatural stuff. No kidding, 5 percent is the stuff I browse for which most people would be interested in, ghosts, cryotids, aliens, scary stories the usual stuff but X is overrun by semen retention, succubus, manifestation, literal religious nut jobs, actually literal insane conspiracies, the nobody (sounds interesting but it's actually just delusional people), divination and spirituality and any and all combinations of all these topics sprinkled with casual racism and xenophobia.

I'm not even nitpicking these are common and I just pulled up the app and saw all of the there.

I unserstand how some of these could fall under paranormal but the board is just overrun by insane posts and nobody sane could remotely believe them.

[–] Naboo_calls_for_aid@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Being pretty familiar with it in the late 2000s, I kinda forgot about it in the mid-late 2010s only to recently find out the role of it & 8chan in the junk like q-anon and the rise of the alt-right. Like where did we go wrong?

[–] Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago

Non moderation in a world that is increasingly connected. All the crazies can easily find themselves and use propaganda to turn youths into them.