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4chan... A part of internet (history) for sure (feddit.org)
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https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/infamous-message-board-4chan-taken-down-following-major-hack/

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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I think similarly. And 4chan wasn't the only website affected, it happened to reddit and to pretty much all social networks. It was very drastic, like somebody flipped a switch on the internet that year. You could tell astroturfing was way more intense than usual.

I'm not sure if I got used to it, but it feels a little bit more mellow nowadays, with flare-ups in key political moments, but 2016 was a 365 day effort.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

It happened here too last US election. I had no idea what was real, and then suddenly - poof - the vocal accounts all quieted down.