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In a similar vein: The social media (in particular Reddit and 4chan) is a different beast on national US holidays, when all the professional opinion steering forces are at rest.

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I mean, is 4chan ever really any good?

It's one of the last places you can make a post without having people trawl though your posting history if they dislike something you said. It's an interesting feature.

Also, no downvoting. Just discussions. On Reddit they use downvotes as a way to disagree

Sometimes better than Reddit

Try it. But don't go to /b/. Watch pol, but only observe for a while. Don't get offended, enjoy the liberty and range of ideas - there are goldmines there regularly. Also you'll read things there first, and a lot of things that will never be on the news. If you ignore the slide and shill threads, it's one of the best places on the net right still.

yes

It's how I found out about https://promiseskept.com/ and http://www.magapill.com/ - lists of things Trump has actually accomplished, without the "Trump is bad" rhetoric. And despite the name of the latter, it's not just a Trump fansite - it's based entirely on links to external sources. Unfortunately, the first one doesn't seem to have sources even though it's organized much better.

(And yes, per sibling comment - it was /pol/)

keep in mind that jeffery epstein's death news was first broken on 4chan before MSM picked it up.

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/4chan-jeffrey-epstein-...

4chan is not just an image board, but an intelligence service too.

>4chan is not just an image board, but an intelligence service too.

Let's not go too far, Pizzagate and QAnon started on 4chan as well. Calling it an "intelligence service" implies a degree of agency or purpose that 4chan doesn't have, or even care about.

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