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4chan is no more a "particular community" than reddit or discord is.

chrisseaton 4y ago
4chan has its own style and memes and things, and is a group of people. People use Discord to run everything from their business to their e-sports team. Like criticising email it’s just a tool not a particular community.
- busterarm 4y ago
  4chan is several communities of people, just like reddit or discord but way smaller. Nobody reads all of 4chan. It's not a monoculture. People read one or two boards and that's it. The cultures of say, /k/ or /m/, are entirely unique to themselves and unlike any other board on 4chan.
  - chrisseaton 4y ago
    Ain’t nobody running for example their company office or research symposium on a 4chan board. That’s the difference that should be obvious to anyone.
- ratww 4y ago
  Well, Discord also has its own styles of memes and things. And 4chan is actually also made of multiple communities, like other people said. Reddit is probably a closer comparison, or maybe Facebook, with the difference that Discord requires an app and login and is not really "web". It's complicated. Sure, nobody is running their workplace chat on those, but it doesn't negate that Discord is sort of a Reddit-like aggregate of communities for many people.
  - wink 4y ago
    > Discord also has its own styles of memes I think you're misattributing the medium to the.. dunno, zeitgeist? of communications. As the servers/communities are so closed off (relatively, compared to other things) I don't think the comparison to reddit stands. I'm on several gaming discords and even they're varying so much, the only overlap is general memes. I've not stumbled over any sort of discord-'in'-language. On reddit you have upvotes or copypastas or cake days or whatever, but as others have said, Discord is more like email - not even like IRC with some of its oddities.
soared 4y ago
I would disagree, perhaps not a community but definitely a niche or sub genre. I have a discord I use at work, and there are definitely zero people using 4chan for work.

4chan has its own style and memes and things, and is a group of people. People use Discord to run everything from their business to their e-sports team. Like criticising email it’s just a tool not a particular community.

busterarm 4y ago
4chan is several communities of people, just like reddit or discord but way smaller. Nobody reads all of 4chan. It's not a monoculture. People read one or two boards and that's it. The cultures of say, /k/ or /m/, are entirely unique to themselves and unlike any other board on 4chan.
- chrisseaton 4y ago
  Ain’t nobody running for example their company office or research symposium on a 4chan board. That’s the difference that should be obvious to anyone.
ratww 4y ago
Well, Discord also has its own styles of memes and things. And 4chan is actually also made of multiple communities, like other people said. Reddit is probably a closer comparison, or maybe Facebook, with the difference that Discord requires an app and login and is not really "web". It's complicated. Sure, nobody is running their workplace chat on those, but it doesn't negate that Discord is sort of a Reddit-like aggregate of communities for many people.
- wink 4y ago
  > Discord also has its own styles of memes I think you're misattributing the medium to the.. dunno, zeitgeist? of communications. As the servers/communities are so closed off (relatively, compared to other things) I don't think the comparison to reddit stands. I'm on several gaming discords and even they're varying so much, the only overlap is general memes. I've not stumbled over any sort of discord-'in'-language. On reddit you have upvotes or copypastas or cake days or whatever, but as others have said, Discord is more like email - not even like IRC with some of its oddities.

soared 4y ago

I would disagree, perhaps not a community but definitely a niche or sub genre. I have a discord I use at work, and there are definitely zero people using 4chan for work.