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  1. Comment on I, like many of you came from Reddit. But what brought you to Reddit? in ~tech

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    Yes, from, the inside it's a big difference, and that's why I kept using 4chan for a while. But as far as people "not in on the joke" go, just people discovering it for the first time or having it...

    Yes, from, the inside it's a big difference, and that's why I kept using 4chan for a while. But as far as people "not in on the joke" go, just people discovering it for the first time or having it pop up as a search result, 4chan looks exactly the same as it always did, and they probably don't understand the discussions about it "changing".

  2. Comment on I, like many of you came from Reddit. But what brought you to Reddit? in ~tech

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    This is the first time I've ever heard the theory that 4chan "got worse". I was on 4chan 20 years ago at the beginning and the only difference between 20 years ago and 10 years ago was that 20...

    This is the first time I've ever heard the theory that 4chan "got worse". I was on 4chan 20 years ago at the beginning and the only difference between 20 years ago and 10 years ago was that 20 years ago the racism, sexism, and homophobia was a joke and by 10 years ago the people posting really meant it. But as far as an outside observer, not in on the "joke" could tell, the content was the same.

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  3. Comment on I, like many of you came from Reddit. But what brought you to Reddit? in ~tech

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    Exactly the same. My main on Reddit is 14 years old. I saw what was happening with Digg and moved to the next thing. I've had a good 14 years and lucked out by moving to what became the biggest...

    Exactly the same. My main on Reddit is 14 years old. I saw what was happening with Digg and moved to the next thing. I've had a good 14 years and lucked out by moving to what became the biggest site on the internet. I'm hedging my bets this time and I've created a Tildes account, Lemmy, Mastodon, and Kbin (even though all those last three are technically just the same thing presented 3 different ways), and I'm hoping I find something as much as I liked Reddit 5 years ago. But the writing was really on the wall back then, Reddit's been sliding for a while, but between the Trump presidency, pandemic, return of Nazis, mass shootings, etc.... it's been kind of hard to notice the downfall of Reddit with all the other noise going on.

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