I was just browsing a thread on c/nfl looking for new mods. There were multiple 12+ year Redditors there offering to help.
Got me wondering. There are 14,000 of us in this community. How many of us are ten year plus users who have just had enough?
Edit: I didn’t expect this post to be as poignant as it became. There are so many of you… I can’t reply to everyone. I’m an 11 year user and have modded something like 150 subs over the years. I’m really sad too, but I’m finding that lemmy has most of the content I’m looking for, just needs more comments.
The API was a big blow, but removing awards on past posts and deleting coin balances is really dumb.
Triforce! That’s a term I haven’t heard in a long time. I never used “the far left website known as 4chan” but I remember that
Ironically enough, the person who introduced me to 4chan was a queer, fine arts student from Pratt in New York. A bit of an anime geek, she’d frequent those boards and /b. 4chan was always bad, gross and kind of fucked-up, but once /r9k and /pol started leaking onto other places, it got exponentially worse. Then, they caught the attention of the news it was like pouring napalm on a dumpster fire.
I haven’t been there in years. But in those mid, to late 00s there were some hilarious threads on there, like Anon works in IT, the Time 100 thing, when they fucked with Scientology and got away with it. But then, there were threads that started out funny and it got taken too far. The whole Battletoads thing was one of those when they started harassing GameStop employees.
Finally, there was whole thing of the guy who shot up a Community College in Oregon and posted about it the day before. And the whole tread was actively encouraging it was beyond fucked. Amongst other things. And the whole 8cha/8kun thing, with Qanon, which I just watched the documentary because I was long gone by then.