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The only thing 4chan is good for.
Nowadays I browse mostly /vg/ and /a/, but I feel like 4chan is in certain aspects considerably better than Reddit. For example it's actually easier to have a decent conversation in 4chan than in Reddit.
Perhaps I'm biased though, I've been posting in that shithole for more than a decade, for comparison my oldest Reddit account would be 9yo if not banned.
Kind of weird to think about it - 4chan saw Reddit being born, and 4chan will see Reddit die.
4chan just feels a lot less organized compared to Reddit or any other social media platform. Which is expected since it is focused on users being anonymous, but there must be a better way to link to boards; it's kind of overwhelming when you're on some board and you see some rules like: this can only be posted to /b/ and if you want to talk about that go to /x/.
4chan users actually think they're superior. I sometimes see insufferable people on Reddit, but 4chan is where it's at.
I cannot tell if it is ironic or not, but people there feel like outright Nazis.
And finally I don't like the funni green texts, they are just not my thing.
I also might be biased because I didn't browse 4chan nearly as much as I did Reddit.
Yes, 4chan has a thousand problems. Specially if you go to /b/ (random), /pol/ (politics) and /v/ (technically video games, but most people who like them discuss in splinter boards). And there are plenty Nazi, specially in /pol/.
But honestly, I don't think that the Nazi issue is considerably larger in 4chan than it is in Reddit. It's just more visible; the same Stormfront Nazi are in Reddit, except that they disguise their shit behind pretty words, or feigning stupidity¹. If you do anything similar in 4chan people will eat you alive, and you can actually tell the Nazi to die in a fire². It's crude and transparent, but it's like this for everyone.
And Reddit will likely get even worse in the long run. Mod replacements mean a power vacuum; a lot of those Nazi might eventually get into power positions, because the users (incl. mods) who'd protest against them are now gone.
Another issue with 4chan is the format - threads might go in the span of a hour in faster boards, so it is not suitable for any long-term discussion. The generals are a community hack around this, but even then, expect the same questions pop up over and over, and then fall into the abyss.
So overall I feel like 4chan is not a good Reddit alternative, but I still think that it's easier to discuss serious stuff there than in Reddit.
It’s like seeing that one popular person you don’t like being hated by all lol.