For those of you that haven’t seen, 4chan was hacked:
https://boingboing.net/2025/04/17/4chan-hacked-obliterated-and-unlikely-to-be-back-soon.html
A deadly blow? Will a copycat spring up? Where are the users going in the meantime? Does any of this really matter?
I love how the last comment on it, if it doesn’t come back will be “chicken jockey”.
I’ve seen some in the comment sections on Lemmy, but the brunt is probably going to tarnish reddit, as they’ve done it already when they werent on 4chan.
There’s an entire instance full of them here. It’s called HilariosChaos. Edgelords abound!
They’re not 4channers and I find Alice the instance amin quite nice.
Agree to disagee.
Do you have any examples? We can just agree on this one if true lol
I have one example that I think is pretty solid:
HilariousChaos.
I meant specific examples. But yeah, agree to disagree, then lol
The instance serves as an example unto itself. It’s widely known to be a troll instance. I don’t really know what else to say.
What will happen to greentext groups etc?
I know right? Who will we make fun of now without any shame? Other than magats and news anchors.
Removed by mod
4chan died over a decade ago. What has been nuked there was its rotting carcass plastered with Nazi and MAGA shit.
It should never return.
lol thinking they were not already here
Not Lemmy, eh? Are you sure? You could be great, you know. It’s all here in your head. And Lemmy can help you on your way to greatness, there’s no doubt about that. No?
I think you’re misunderstanding octopus_ink’s comment. Are you thinking octopus_ink is a 4chan refugee? I think they’re just a Lemmy user hoping we don’t get flooded with 4chan assholes.
I am aware of that. Thank you.
I just quoted the movie and changed Slytherin with Lemmy.
I thought it would be funny.
It worked. Some people had their sense of humor shot off in
highschoolelementary.Well if you’re sure,… Better be,… Tor!
Joke ——->
You
I hope not.
But I hope it does spring up somwhere again.
I need my WHFB talk and my Warhammer pdfs.süring
hü?
Whoops, typo.
German keyboard, the ‘ü’ is next to the ‘p’. Fixed now.I was trying to figure out what you meant, but never thought of spring.
It happens every year after winter.
it won’t be. too confusing for everyday people lol
A deadly blow?
I hope so.
Will a copycat spring up?
History says yes, but if a loving god truly exists, one won’t.
Where are the users going in the meantime?
Hopefully outside.
Does any of this really matter?
Only if they bring their bullshit to the fediverse.
There is fchan which is technically fediverse, but it luckily uses a different protocol.
I think Lemmy is easier to manage getting rid of any BS. Even if they do bring BS to Lemmy, they won’t last.
And it’s easy to block them and their communities
If they do, hopefully they flock to a single instance which is easily blockable
That was what I was going to say. Then, we can isolate them. Or any community that tries to corrupt Lemmy like reddit.
History says yes, but if a loving god truly exists, one won’t.
Trump is president. Clearly there is no loving god.
If a loving god ever existed they died before humanity made it to the stage.
I know it’s a tiny minority of their culture over there but I will miss seeing screenshots of their wholesome/poignant greentexts. I hope some of those robots move on and turn out ok
Welcome to lemmy you filthy animals lol
Hopefully not here
I was the person who wrote all the posts, now looking for freelance work.
Aren’t there similar websites like 8chan that serve the same purpose? I may be out of the loop but won’t they migrate there?
8ch×n is worse.
Why would it go away completely? Why wouldn’t they plug the hack and continue on as they were before? Getting hacked doesn’t typically kill a service unless there was data deleted and no recovery option available.
My understanding from the articles I read is that the whole platform ran on PHP 5.5, and porting from a version that old to current is no small task.
The current owner is not and has not ever been interested in maintaining it. He bought it to squeeze it of its worth and now that it’s suddenly going to cost a lot of money to bring back he probably just won’t.
That does leave the possibility of selling it to someone who does want to restore it.
One possible reason I’ve read is that the people moderating it have had their identities leaked, so imagine being the person responsible for banning 4chan users and now also they know who you are, seems like a very unappealing thing to volunteer for.
They’re on the clearnet. Their identities are already known…
They would need to rewrite it again, the release source code showed about of security flaws. If they’re just re upped it again it would be taken down by someone the sake day.
It’s unclear if they even can plug the many security vulnerabilities that are now public information. The leaked source code reveals that the site hasn’t been updated at all since the new owner took over.
there exists tons of image boards already, if one dies people move into others.
