>why does it matter if it's state-owned anyway?
It was once an independent private-owned web-site that resembles today's Heyuri. But it was bought by a state affiliated guy, and then eventually transferred to a state affiliated company.

It serves two main functions now:
1. as a honeypot (basically everything in Russia is illegal - e.g. a post with a hentai image attached to it can send you to jail)
2. to spread Russian propaganda among the internet "nerds"

So naturally all original user-base is lost, and now it is populated by ignorant pro-Putin shitposters.

Modern 2ch.hk is about shitposting AI bullshit, TikToks, politics, wojacks & pepe, zoomers/boomers/coomers, buzzwords like "based/cringe" or "cope", greentext stories, and just about everything spiced with a huge dose of Putin's propaganda.

So basically it is full of crap. Ironically all those things are banned here (Rules 6, 7, and 8).

These so-called "sosachers" don't respect anyone's culture. They act basically like locusts, migrating from one board to another, shitposting on every board they can.

I'm surprised that you're supporting that kind of thing here on Heyuri.