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[-] raod_guitar@feddit.org 191 points 1 month ago

Not the type of hacktivism we need but the one we deserve.

[-] Gigasser@lemmy.world 44 points 1 month ago

The hackers who took 4chan down come from an imageboard known as soyjak.party or "the sharty". They are unironically, in terms of politics, more far right, and in terms of culture, far worse than 4chan from what I've heard and seen from the website.

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[-] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 171 points 1 month ago

I looked at some of the leaked source code and my god the code smells are so rotten its like they had a dead horse in the back for a while and its developed a stank like an Eric Andre skit.

It increasingly looks like nobody would maintain this bundle of wax besides under-experienced juniors who threw themselves at it, and apparently after moot sold it, it was never touched. It runs on an extremely old version of FreeBSD and PHP.

The fact this happened now as opposed to any time in the past decade is, I have no words.

[-] elrecoal19_1@lemmy.world 53 points 1 month ago

I wanna bet attackers probably thought it would be maintained by one or several of the most no-life, chronically-online users of the web... or that they would be waiting for an attack to get revenge in their typical unhinged way... and it turned out no one was maintaining or watching it at all XD

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[-] Realitaetsverlust@lemmy.zip 46 points 1 month ago

I mean, the source code looks a lot cleaner than WordPress, which is an incredibly sad statement.

Kill WordPress now.

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[-] JaymesRS@literature.cafe 131 points 1 month ago
[-] dentoid@sopuli.xyz 57 points 1 month ago

Now thats a meme i havent seen in 20 years

[-] JaymesRS@literature.cafe 28 points 1 month ago

It's an older meme sir, but it checks out.

[-] Tum@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago

Boxxy must be what...40 now?

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[-] match@pawb.social 35 points 1 month ago

damn it's even in the original 140p

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[-] Doctor_Satan@lemm.ee 115 points 1 month ago
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[-] vk6flab@lemmy.radio 114 points 1 month ago

What's the point? 4chan seems like such a low value target.

[-] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 136 points 1 month ago

A bunch of chuds got angry that they were banned because they went brigading against LGBTQ+ folk.

This was the end result

[-] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 22 points 1 month ago

Ah yes, there's no honor amongst thieves.

[-] johncandy1812@lemmy.ca 55 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

By my understanding, 4chan left themselves vulnerable which, given the circles they foster, means they were going to be compromised. No fear of reprisal or consequence for it either. Not like when attacking a major corporation or government.

[-] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 32 points 1 month ago

i'm fairly certain there are more than likely a LOT of politicians on there with very questionable posting records who would probably be on a sex offender registry if it got out.

[-] CallateCoyote@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago

If they're Republican it won't matter.

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[-] BossPaint@lemmy.world 97 points 1 month ago

Is this the end of 4 Chan?

[-] nyan@lemmy.cafe 134 points 1 month ago

If so, it's a fitting way for them to die.

[-] hal_5700X@sh.itjust.works 100 points 1 month ago

4chan died a long time ago.

[-] IllNess@infosec.pub 24 points 1 month ago

When do you consider it died? 2015 when Poole sold it?

[-] Hansae@lemmy.dbzer0.com 50 points 1 month ago

2016 when MAGApedes inavded the site.

[-] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 71 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Not invaded. The existing 4chan user-base inspired, and was targeted with, fascist propaganda starting with gamergate!

It was literally ground zero for fascist PsyOps. Steve Bannon even considered it an inspiration, and a pivotal moment, in the creation of his fascist propaganda machine.

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[-] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 35 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

When the protests against scientology happened. Long before it was sold. Long before MAGA or the politics board were even a concept. It didn't die immediately from them, but it was the start of a measurable drop in discussion quality that never stopped.

The "protests" devolved into some of the cringiest irl meetups of online communities I have ever come across (yes, worse than dashcon), and it caused so much media attention that it accelerated the "eternal september" problem the site always had exponentially.

Motherfuckers forgot the golden rule about "hiding your power level", which at the time at least meant doing your best to appear relatively normal in public and went full "I'm a horribly socially maladjusted mess with bad hygiene who can only communicate via tired memes, look at me! Look at me! I know memes! Haha longcat is long am I right?".

A lot of people remember the cringe of reddit's "When does the narwhal bacon?" forced meme attempt at the world's most embarassing "secret pass phrase" bullshit. The scientology "protests" were significant orders of magnitude more cringe.

4chan was never a secret club, but the sheer agressiveness of non-tolerance towards obviously new posters helped to maintain a very low bar of "quality". I'd argue that's needed to maintain any semblance of a community on an entirely anonymous image board that has minimal moderation. Shitty threads would get saged relentlessly, eating up the maximum comments a thread could have and drowning out any discussion in the shitty thread, all without bumping it back up to the top. Hit the reply limit and the thread slides off the bottom, gone forever.

"Lurk moar, faggot" was the phrase of the time. Stop posting until you figure out how things work around here.

But as more and more people unfamiliar with what shitty community existed came in, there hit a point where they outnumbered the old guard, and the already low quality of discussion tanked.

/b/ used to have discussion threads about all sorts of shit. Actual thought provoking stuff now and then. Funny stories. Occasionally legitimately good OC. It was the breeding ground for most of the memes and meme formats that spread to the internet at large. Mudkipz, rickrolling, EFG (the progenitor of trollface and rage comics), lolcats, advice animals. All /b/.

Now it is almost entirely people sharing photos of women they know that they've downloaded off the ladies' social media accounts to jerk off to. Previously they would have been chased off to the dedicated porn (or softcore) boards using fire, pitchforks, and spam of the most digusting images the internet had until the posters got the message. Or at the very least they would have been bullied into a single thread at a time instead of taking over almost every thread on the board.

Instead it has all devolved to the absolute lowest common denominator.

/b/ (and by extension 4chan as a whole) has always been a cesspit. I'm not trying to deny that. There's screenshots out there of it back when the post count hadn't breached 1000 that show that it was shit even in the very very beginning. Back when it was almost exclusively m00t, W.T. Snacks, and their friends from Something Awful. That said, it used to be engaging to scroll through because you could stumble upon some legitimately good discussion. It hasn't been worth even trying to look for good discussion on /b/ for well over a decade.

The retro videogames board was a brief shining return to quality for a few years after it was created, even managed to find, back up, and translate some things that had been lost media. The DooM threads used to be the place to be for new DooM wads. Even that board's pretty shit now too.

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[-] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 96 points 1 month ago

That Reddit thread is a very strange experience for someone not of their culture

[-] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 72 points 1 month ago

Lemmy and 4chan do have one thing in common

Hating reddit.

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[-] datavoid@lemmy.ml 50 points 1 month ago

That is all 4chan lingo. As a general rule of thumb, if it sounds like something Elon would say, it's from 4chan.

[-] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 34 points 1 month ago

Just remember that the vast majority of those users are in their mid-late 30s or even early 40s. Zoomers and even younger millennials never gave a shit about 4chan.

[-] HATEFISH@midwest.social 33 points 1 month ago

Maybe they didn't care to the same degree but unfortunately incel culture was fostered in several areas, and a lot of them are younger than mid 30s.

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[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 89 points 1 month ago

Start linking up 4chan IDs to real rich people like Musk or republican officials and watch trump start calling for the death penalty for the hacker.

[-] riodoro1@lemmy.world 24 points 1 month ago

It’s that incel elon musk starting all those facebook porn threads on /b/.

I think you guys have a weird idea of what 4chan is.

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[-] Darkard@lemmy.world 69 points 1 month ago

Pools closed

[-] dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 57 points 1 month ago

Question: what is the significance of /qa/, why was the board banned in the first place, and why did the hackers bring it back?

[-] FeelThePower@lemmy.dbzer0.com 59 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

qa was my favourite 4chan board probably ever. it was a random board like /b/, but strictly SFW. so, they were the creatives of the site. the soyjak memes you see everywhere started there. they got into fights with other boards but it came to a boiling point when they raided 4chans LGBT board, and as a result qa was closed. they moved to another website. that website, or rather one of its users, then spent about a year navigating the very outdated freebsd from a decade ago running on 4chans servers until he was able to access the PHP admin panel, re-open /qa/, and then nuke all files on the server except the homepage. which itself now seems to return an SQL error.

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[-] gargolito@lemm.ee 54 points 1 month ago

Is q-anon Elon Musk? What? I'm just asking questions.

[-] Alteon@lemmy.world 39 points 1 month ago

You should check out the HBO documentary on Qanon. It's fantastic. Essentially, no. However, I don't doubt for a second that Elon didn't try to co-opt it at some point.

[-] LanguageIsCool@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago

What happened to that shit? I hate how something like that can emerge, take hold, push people into conspiracies and the right, literally destroy families, then go away and nobody cares

[-] dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

furthermore, it's reinterpreted as a false flag or something that never really happened - there is never accountability

ContraPoints did an excellent video on conspiracy theories recently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teqkK0RLNkI

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[-] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 50 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Apparently Elon Musk is mentioned quite frequently in these leaks, but take this with a sea of salt as there is no way to independently verify: https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/search/tripcode/%21SATANZ0Gpo/page/3/

https://www.reddit.com/r/LeaksAndRumors/comments/1jzqr8c/elon_musks_alleged_unverified_4chan_account/ (archive) summarizes these posts

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[-] FourWaveforms@lemm.ee 48 points 1 month ago

someone hacked into the sewer and stole all the turds

[-] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 47 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

10000 line file with no comments is honestly relatable as someone who took a job and had to wade through code like that

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[-] Kolanaki@pawb.social 44 points 1 month ago

The hacker known as 4chan hacked himself? 😮

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[-] hal_5700X@sh.itjust.works 42 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
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[-] fossilesque@mander.xyz 37 points 1 month ago

Ah, the mysterious hacker known as 4chan.

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[-] vga@sopuli.xyz 32 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I posted an amused and positive comment on the orange site about this and in 2 minutes got a threat about me getting hanged in the near future. Tech bros be panicing.

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[-] Amoxtli@thelemmy.club 31 points 1 month ago
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[-] swab148@lemm.ee 30 points 1 month ago

And nothing of value was lost

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