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Re:8chan goes dark after hardware provider discontinues service by sjwright on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @04:56AM (#20623460)
The antidote to social media ad populum isn't social media anarchy. They're both bad, but they're not equally bad.

It's like asking if you'd rather eat your own poop or a handful of one inch nails. As unpalatable as the former certainly is, the latter is unambiguously worse.

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Re:8chan goes dark after hardware provider discontinues service by ShinTakuya on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @05:30AM (#20623641)
I never claimed it was a solution. I just said it helps you to avoid it. If it were the solution I wouldn't be on Hacker News right now.

Although I strongly disagree regarding 4chan being unambiguously worse. Maybe if you're talking about just /b/ and /pol/ I'd agree but the site is so much more than that.

For instance, the game development community there much more human and helpful than most other communities I've participated in. But there's a hundreds of other micro communities that are really great if you know where to find them.

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