>>781860it's not that they're different in that they're completely special, it's that every type of site is different. twitter creates a different kind of poster compared to a forum, which is different again to an imageboard, which is different again to facebook, or instagram, or tiktok, or youtube. each one of those encourages a different kind of posting. you *can* cheat and upload static images plus greentexts to youtube, but the site makes that much more annoying than doing it here. you can do the same on forums too, but it rarely takes the same format since images attatch differently.
the main good features of imageboards are that you don't have to register an account (tedious, keeps too permanent a log of your behavior and posts + encourages the kind of psychological investment that makes it more likely you go nuts when banned) although you can still use a name if you like (an imageboard where you need a name - but can change it at any time and can't register it - would be fine, anonymity is a bit of a meme), that threads are ephemeral, that they're all on a single page, and that image uploading is made very easy. it's more like a big semi-anonymous IRC/discord. the whole thing mainly thrives on a high PPH and a sort of sense of anarchy that flows from that. once you cross a certain threshold the appeal becomes the opposite, throwing posts out into the void knowing that you're unlikely to get a reply at all. (but /leftypol/ is ill suited to that because the chance is too high that you'll get a bad reply.)