In the wake of the news of Fredrick Brennan's (8chan creator) passing, I was reminded that I too had some dream of creating an imageboard, but I never got around to it and I'm glad I did.

Basically, much like how 8chan was basically a fusion of Reddit and 4chan, my idea was a fusion of Twitter and 4chan, as in instead of boards, threads would be grouped via tags that anyone can create on the fly. The only rules would be to keep everything legal and all spam threads would be deleted. I never got around to it because of my limited knowledge of programming and servers at the time and I felt like my more progressive family members would disown me for creating such a site.

I'm glad I never created that site because I feel like most people who run community sites for niche and dissident audiences tend to regret it later in life and go down dark paths. Though, I'm not against such sites in principle, I just hope that if you create such a community that you are prepared for what you are getting into. At least Hot Wheels seemed to have enjoyed the final years of his life.

@xianc78 IIRC Hotwheels let the chomos use private boards with 20+ character hashes for names as long as they didn't shit up the rest of the site. His problem with the site was purely troll's remorse and spite towards Jim Watkins.
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@mrsaturday It's not just him. People like m00t and Lowtax went down similar paths. The latter even ended up killing himself.

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@xianc78 Moot just joined the rat race rather than becoming a communist diaperfur that spent the rest of his days railing against free speech

@mrsaturday To be fair, moot doesn't suffer from a genetic condition that cuts your lifespan to 1/3 of the average person so he has many more decades to build his lasting legacy.

@xianc78 Hotwheels was doing cool stuff with typefacing and was getting into the Bible. You can make the most of a short life without becoming a diaperfur tenderqueer that podcasts about Funko Pops
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