4chan is pretty niche these days, and for good reasons. It was never mainstream but it definitely lost a lot of its prestige and relevance.
But at least 4chan was always upfront about its policies: you could always basically post anything as long as it didn't put the site's existence in jeopardy, so effectively as long as the lawyers/cops/fbi didn't come knocking it was free for all.
Reddit is roughly the same thing except they hypocritically attempt to maintain a façade of being "the good guys". I remember in particular how, after having hosted "jail bait" and other very questionable content for years they finally decided to no longer allow it they felt the need to publish a heartfelt message about how "we thought about our daughters" and all that crap instead of saying the truth, which is that it just generated too much bad publicity and made the advertisers go away.
But at least 4chan was always upfront about its policies: you could always basically post anything as long as it didn't put the site's existence in jeopardy, so effectively as long as the lawyers/cops/fbi didn't come knocking it was free for all.
Reddit is roughly the same thing except they hypocritically attempt to maintain a façade of being "the good guys". I remember in particular how, after having hosted "jail bait" and other very questionable content for years they finally decided to no longer allow it they felt the need to publish a heartfelt message about how "we thought about our daughters" and all that crap instead of saying the truth, which is that it just generated too much bad publicity and made the advertisers go away.
Reddit is 4chan pretending to be Facebook.