Are you saying that 4chan was much more influential than reddit? Because I'm not sure that I'd buy that without some serious data.
4chan isn't small potatoes. It's reasonably big potatoes. But intuitively it isn't reddit scale potatoes.
4chan isn't small potatoes. It's reasonably big potatoes. But intuitively it isn't reddit scale potatoes.
What we do now is based on SA, 4chan then. Reddit is the influence of those sites, it didn't eclipse them, it amplified them. The part of reddit that isn't SA and 4chan is pretty much Digg, which is why censorship of even the most horrific speech represents an existential threat to the company.