• driving_crooner
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    5 hours ago

    Did 4chan had usernames and so? Wasn’t it’s deal that ir was anonymous?

    • TheTetrapod@lemmy.world
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      4 hours ago

      Some of the boards use a system called tripcodes, which are essentially a username and password in one that are used when writing individual posts. It allows people to prove that they’re the same person across multiple posts, without anything as identifying as a user profile attached.