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this post was submitted on 14 Jan 2026
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Because imageboards have no significance anymore.
It's not even remotely the biggest image board. The biggest image board is Instagram or Pinterest or some site like that.
None of those are imageboards
They are imageboards. Just because their layout is slicker than imageboards used to look like 25 years ago doesn't make them not imageboards
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english/imageboard
By that definition sure they are, but that's a really odd definition which would include basically all internet websites with some forum-esque component and images, including Lemmy and Reddit and twitter.
I would use the "List of imageboards" from this article instead: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imageboard
I think in this subculture "image board" now refers specifically to 2ch-style platforms such as 4chan, not to any type of platform where you can post images
ikr, like as if any sane person would call lemmy or insta an image board, or put them in the same category as 4chan just because you can post image
"tomato is a fruit ☝️🤓" ass comments in this post, man
what do words even mean? let's make them mean everything so that we can't use them now
The biggest image board is Instagram or Pinterest or some site like that.
this is like saying a hovercraft is a car because it's a personal transportation vehicle.
If it's such a clear disparity then explain to me how Pinterest isn't an imageboard?
First off, there's no anonymous posting, and barely any anonymous reading
Lol "4chan is the biggest website out of all the websites identical to 4chan"
Lol “4chan is the biggest website out of all the websites identical to 4chan”
Most imageboards and 2channel-style discussion boards allow (and encourage) anonymous posting and use a system of tripcodes instead of registration.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imageboard#Tripcodes
I have used a variety of imageboards, and looked into their history. Instagram isn't a fucking imageboard.
That has nothing to do with whether a site is an imageboard. Obviously there are a zillion differences between 4chan and Pinterest, but none that make Pinterest not an image board
Can’t encrypt a .rar and hide it covertly in an image that opens and displays like normal until you rename the file extension and decrypt it anymore
That was definitely a darker time
rar
rawr
no don't do it
rawr.xd
Cant post with VPN on? Didn't knew that.
Meant to prevent ban evasions but serial evaders just reset their routers.
Everyone who cares about the imageboard format cares about it because they like 2channel/4chan culture
culture
Mold is still a culture
Is lack of culture a culture? 🤔
Because it helped in the slow death of fandom forums.
Back in the days, you went to Johnny's Anime Forum. Then people demanded Johnny to give them the same freedom 4chan allowed. Johnny either bade his forum hostile to others, or let people go to 4chan.
Yes, the ultimate blow was Facebook groups and pages, alongside with Reddit, but 4chan was the first blow.
Nowadays the closest thing we have for that is Lemmy/Piefed/mbin.
Do you like mbin? I didn't know about that one.
it's all just fediverse anyway tho
Channers are more fearful of and reluctant to change than the general population.
They/“we” remember the days when /b/ was good (inb4 “/b/ was never good”)
inb4 “/b/ was never good"
i mean you said it yourself
“/b/ was never good” is a meme from mid-to-late 2000s /b/, when I was active on it hahaha