I’m surprised they teamed up with the Kiwi Farms admins as plaintiffs in this lawsuit. Neither of these companies have an abundance of goodwill, but at least 4chan has a more “mainstream” (memestream?) reputation. Kiwi Farms on the other hand, is either unknown or generally disreputable. And anyone who googles them will not find favorable coverage.

I suspect they’ll win this case in the US, maybe triggering some JD Vance lecture to the UK. The outcome will be mostly meaningless, but even a political outcome is less likely with the Kiwi Farms participation. That’s a bad move on all fronts IMO.

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cyanydeez a day ago | parent | prev [-]

No. They dont have better credentials or reputation.

Youre remembering that specific time in your life when being edgy was like a drug. Many got hooked, many grew up.

But no one looks at 4chan like its more than /b/ or /pol/ ourside its walls.

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chatmasta a day ago | parent [-]

No, I'm comparing 4chan to Kiwi Farms. Neither of them have positive reputations. But between the two of them, Kiwi Farms is clearly worse, if only because it's more fringe and has no "base" of support. There is a large cohort of people who are not very familiar with 4chan but will support it philosophically based on right-leaning tribalism and its reputation as a bastion of free speech. Nobody knows Kiwi Farms and anyone who looks them up will find little redeemable about them.

All I'm saying is that if, for example, 4chan has 50% probability of mustering support from the political right, then Kiwi Farms has 25%. And together they have less chance than 4chan would have by itself.

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krapp a day ago | parent [-]

Kiwifarms definitely had a base of support. Go look up one of the threads about Kiwifarms being taken down. The same free speech absolutists who supported 4chan supported it as well.

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		They have a base in the terminally online free speech absolutists. The base for 4chan will be much wider, since there's a bunch of MAGA boomers who have never/barely used it but associate it with their political faction.