What is 8chan?

[SassyLady]

Heard several references to it today. What is it?

[Kathianne]

Heard several references to it today. What is it?

Dark web white nationalist site. El Paso shooter posted his 'manifesto' there. The 'host' of 8chan was dehosting them, I think last night at midnight.

[SassyLady]

So, a chat board?

[Kathianne]

So, a chat board?

Maybe, I don't do the dark web. :laugh:

[pete311]

Basically DP times 1000x

[Kathianne]

SassyLady

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8chan


8chan, also called Infinitechan or Infinitychan (stylized as ∞chan), was an imageboard website composed of user-created boards. An owner used to moderate each board, with zero interaction from site administration.[3] The site was shut down on August 5, 2019 after the network infrastructure provider Cloudflare took down their CDN service and Voxility, a web services company that rented servers to the site's hosting provider, also took their servers down.[4][5]

As with 4chan, the site has been linked to harmful internet subcultures and activism, in particular Alt-right politics, as well as to multiple mass shootings in the United States and New Zealand.[6][7][8] The site is also known for its presence of child pornography,[9] and as a result is removed from Google Search.[10] Several of the site's boards have played an active role in the Gamergate controversy, encouraging Gamergate affiliates to frequent 8chan after the unaffiliated imageboard 4chan banned the topic. As of June 2019, 8chan is the 3,832nd most visited site in the world.[2] As of November 2014, it received an average of 35,000 unique visitors per day and 400,000 posts per week.[9].


The site went dark in the aftermath of the back to back shootings on August 3 and August 4, 2019 in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio, following a call from its creator Fredrick Brennan to take the site down. The El Paso shooting was linked to a four-page 8chan message, the author of which identified himself as the gunman.[11]

[High_Plains_Drifter]

Basically DP times 1000x
And the insults against this board and it's people just keep coming...

[SassyLady]

Basically DP times 1000x

Are you a member of 8chan pete?

Don't forget ... you are a member of DP as well.

[pete311]

Are you a member of 8chan pete?

Don't forget ... you are a member of DP as well.

Not a member, but I've browsed, totally disgusting

[Kathianne]

Not a member, but I've browsed, totally disgusting

I will read most anything, at least a skimming. I do avoid anything though that appears to have no redeeming value, that is pure evil. It seems to me that this site qualifies for the evil part.

[Elessar]

Basically DP times 1000x


Are you a member of 8chan pete?

Don't forget ... you are a member of DP as well.


Not a member, but I've browsed, totally disgusting

Why did you not state that at first Pete?

You are disgusting at times, too many times.

[Noir]

Dark web white nationalist site. El Paso shooter posted his 'manifesto' there. The 'host' of 8chan was dehosting them, I think last night at midnight.

Its a small distinction- but it’s not a dark web site, it was accessible to anyone with an internet browser.

Chan boards have been around for a long time, the best known is 4Chan, but there are many of them - the format is that they are message boards with expiring content. After a thread is published it only remains on the board until it falls so many pages away, then is deleted. You also don’t login or create accounts on these style of boards, when you post you generate a unique number that can be used to identify you for a short time, but in most instances you can post completely anonymously to other members.

[Kathianne]

Its a small distinction- but it’s not a dark web site, it was accessible to anyone with an internet browser.

Chan boards have been around for a long time, the best known is 4Chan, but there are many of them - the format is that they are message boards with expiring content. After a thread is published it only remains on the board until it falls so many pages away, then is deleted. You also don’t login or create accounts on these style of boards, when you post you generate a unique number that can be used to identify you for a short time, but in most instances you can post completely anonymously to other members.


I'm glad you explained it. As I said, I only know of it by what I've read in past few days. It no longer has a platform that will work for it, at least for now.