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It was hugely better - WAY more original, funnier, randomer, edgier, more of a community, and *massively* faster - /b/ quickly became 15 pages and even then you could start a thread and it would fall off the end of p15 before you could F5 to see if there'd been a reply.
However, this was the mid-00s, so some of it would look dated in 2025, especially now attention spans are even shorter and everyone's a lazy phonetard consumer not a contribitor.