Good things: seem like pretty hardcore lefties. A lot of them seem historically pretty well informed. Chan format seems to attract a lot of people with stem and technical skills, which I think is actually critically important for the left (although a lot of us are obviously turned against it in some way because of Silicon Valley, tech bros, and imperial corruption). Pretty much anonymous with little PII to be tracked or data mined by the state and or enemies.

Bad things: I just really personally hate the Chan layout / format. Chan “culture” is utterly irredeemable. I have lurked there a little bit and it is at the “cum town” level where you cannot tell if certain behaviors that would hurt comrades are ironic or simply normalized. After the cth ban there was actually a thread (not too dissimilar from some of the ones here and on cth discord) pondering how to bring in new members. Let’s just say that certain aspects of the culture manifest as a very serious impasse that would have to be resolved, and the posters in the thread I read through really didn’t have an answer either.

That is my limited experience anyway. It (probably) can’t hurt to go over and check it out