Not aware of any of these, which is nice, but iddqd caught my eye since that's a Doom reference! Overall I always thought the Doom community was pretty positive (at least going by Doomworld forums, and various Doom streamers, as I remember them). I thought surely it must be some misunderstanding! Oh maybe they didn't reply quickly enough to take down some drive-by hate speech, but that was it.

Anyway, holy shit, do not go to that lemmy instance. It's rotten to the core. I'm going to go take a shower and play through Episode 1 to cleanse myself now.

[–] SCB@lemmy.world 16 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

It's pretty standard 4chan-NEET fare, for anyone who is wondering. Racism, homophobia, xenophobia, trad wives, and quasi-pro-nazi shit.

Not worth your time to check out. Small community of sad nerds.

[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)

4chan wasn't like that before 2015. Well, except for the racism part. It was leftish/libertarian.

It's also the easiest "social media" platform to game. You don't have to make up a history for each user. You don't have to get upvoted. You don't even really need to make sense.

[–] neutron@thelemmy.club 4 points 11 months ago

And to think, the Q shit started on these sites.

[–] SCB@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Hell way back in the day, 4chan was one of my go-to websites, before the joking and trolling on /b/ really wasn't joking and trolling any more.

[–] Twelve20two@slrpnk.net 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Back before people who weren't joking started to join in

[–] SCB@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Right. The really early oughts, when trolling was still a real thing, were so radically different that it's hard to explain to people these days

[–] neutron@thelemmy.club 8 points 11 months ago

iddqd was a well known cheat code from the era, not exactly obscure if not contemporary.

[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The Doom fandom will always have the dark shadow of the Columbine High School deaths in its history. So shitty people using Doom to be shitty people isn't that far from the mark. Nothing will ever change that, sorry.

[–] pomodoro_longbreak@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yeah...

[–] INHALE_VEGETABLES@aussie.zone 9 points 11 months ago

It's doomed, don't worry about it.