• Bassman1805@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    Not worth it.

    It’s almost the absolute worst of humanity made anonymous and public. “Almost” is only there because they will delete blatantly illegal content like cp, but anything else goes. Overt racism becomes normalized because people engage with it so it keeps getting bumped to the top. Some legitimately mean it, some are just trolling for the lolz, but either way it desensitizes people and normalizes the view.

    Repeat for any other kind of bigotry or harmful view you can imagine.

    In terms of real people behind the accounts

    One of the defining features of 4chan is the lack of accounts. Most posts are anonymous. Even harder to tell if someone is human or bot when you can instantly just roll a new anon ID.

    • mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca
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      12 hours ago

      yeah I don’t mean browsing I just mean when something happens to go check out there instead of elsewhere that has no info yet

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        11 hours ago

        gonna be honest, it’s not usually worth being on the bleeding edge or whatever the kids are calling it of info if you have to go to 4chan. take a nap, let your blood pressure drop, and then go back to your usual reliable sources.