Zero.

Some number of years in my teens browsing mostly /b/.

Looking back it's interesting to see how much the company you spend your time in makes you become like them. It pretty successfully radicalized me into many stereotypical right-wing beliefs. Then when Trump got elected I over-corrected to the other extreme. I've since settled somewhere in the middle and now it's curious to see this exact same influence on other people I hang with. I was under the illusion that the thoughts and beliefs were mine but they weren't. I simply adopted the views of the group wholesale. Then I discarded them all and did the exact same thing again from the other extreme. We're so gullible.

Here and again, less as a place to interact and more how one might look at a perti dish on a lab. A lot of Internet culture has been born there in a virtually unrestrained chaos, no accounts, no names, no reputations, just doing whatever comes to mind and seeing what sticks.

That lack of any real reputation or responsibility lends itself to people letting out their worst parts that they wouldn't publically sometimes, but can also let people explore other ideas they might not elsewhere too. Just so long as one doesn't take it too seriously and has a stomach for some nasty shit it can be interesting.

0, because it's an armpit.

I lurked most of the time, especially when the captcha system got out of hand.

Mu, co, tv, r9k, trv, TG, v, fit, ck also, po & toy when I wanted something I wasn't interested in doing but wanted to see something other people liked. Also the porn boards.

I visited pol to see news, but didn't agree with the opinions there.

The site has a bad reputation due to b and pol. The other boards have a lot of interesting new culture stuff and honest opinions that are pragmatic and nihilist.

Unfortunately lots of astroturfing also happened there.

I also hung out in 420chan and britchan. Those were a lot slower, and RIP. It's just a nice format for a board.

None. I just know 4Chan from memes and !greentext@sh.itjust.works

/g/, because it was one of the only places I could ask tech questions without needing an account

Lurked a fair amount in college (2006-2010ish) on /b/, /x/, /lit/ for the memes and spoof creepypasta. Don’t miss it in the least.

Very little. I was always content to wait for the actually funny greentexts to break containment and land somewhere else. I went to /b/ in like 2010 after hearing it was funny but it was pretty much just racist. Other boards seemed fine just sort of boring.

Similar experience with Tumblr, I like the funny stuff other people find for me and bring to reddit (and now Lemmy) but the site itself tended to be a little dull day to day.

I used to be a regular on /tv/ and /r9k/ between 2011-2015, I was even a tripfriend on /r9k/ for a while. It was very entertaining, all the interesting schizos were on the chans at some point. I even "drew" my own wojaks and pepes, lol, but only once each because I have no artistic talent, I'm just a big yapper.

/p/ (photography), /g/ (computer)

i used a filter in 4chanx to hide some words i find offending. it's true there's many hateful/misogynistic/racist people there, but there were also many interesting stuff. they have a very minimal moderation policy, i'm not sure if it's a good thing.

haven't went there much lately though.

A few years in high school, mostly /b/, then much less as I found other chans and eventually settled on 420chan. I thought the incel/MGTOW/neckbeard population of 4chan was insufferable, annoying, woe-is-me, crybaby losers who found a way to blame everyone else for their own problems.

420chan was much better; it was full of reckless idiots, jaded addicts, and degenerate losers who found a way to blame society and "the system" for their own problems. Totally different. Not the same flavor at all.

When 420chan started to die, I started trying out Reddit. I stayed there until the API-pocalypse, where I switched to the Fediverse; first Lemmy, then here because, while leftist, I can't stand tankies.

None, ever, because I’m not a degenerate Nazi fuckbag

Used to look at /b/ fairly frequently. Eventually though it just turned into constant really boring porn (like, "rate my friend/girlfriend/sister" and a load of boring pictures of an attractive person who is almost certainly unknown to the OP)

It contained a lot of new, funny stuff, before then. A lot of racism and paedos, too, but I was never easily swayed on anything so it didn't change my views. Back then I thought a lot of most extreme views were just ragebait, and didn't take them seriously, due to how far away they were from any views I'd hear elsewhere (online or in real life) by serious people. With the Nazis coming out of the woodwork with Trump, I don't know how true it was. I still tend to think quite a lot was not reflective of the views of the person posting it, but realise that a fair amount will have been.

I have never frequented the more mundane boards as I always felt like I could find that stuff somewhere else easier to use.

/b/ and /v/ semi randomly, /tg/ more when it was created. Then I took a year off snd the place was ruined with ragecomics and all the other zoomer bs.

I haven't spent any time there. 4chan's reputation makes it seem like it's not the internet experience I'm looking for.

From like 2004-2006 and mostly /b/ because I was an edgy teenager. Probably some others but I honestly don't remember much of 4chan

I frequented /b/ a few years ago, and i would frequently see threads with nazi stuff, white supremacist bullshit, maga glazing, some actual delusional conspiracies (those where real fun) and just to spice it up, the occasional neighbourhood racist going on a bender. But all of the above was only like 10% of the traffic, the rest is litterally all porn and not even good porn ngl. If i had to say the stories are worse than the actual board, not a good place still but not as atrocious as its made out to be. Pretty much instagram reels but dialed up a bit

I used to lurk /v/ and post semiregularly on /vr/.

Those are the most tolerant boards, and you can still get called a slur for liking 'the wrong' Pokémon game lmao.

I remember checking out /lgbt/ in college, and I think my mental health is still recovering.