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Anonymous boards are some of the best spaces for socialization on the Web. In an anonymous board, there is no social status or reputations to be held over you.
Tanasinn - A Guide to Anonymous Boards
Here is a list of my favourite boards, all of which I frequent. They are typically very slow, and if you take your time to read the room before contributing, you will find that you will be greatly rewarded by others doing the same. Do the opposite, and you may face anger, too.
Bus Stop is intended to be a stress free environment for talking with strangers.
Posts expire after twenty four hours. There are no threads, but you can highlight posts with the same subject.
The Post Office is an anonymous textboard for people that like to relax and appreciate the little things in life.
Excellent general purpose textboard, with cute gimmicks like a community newspaper and an image gallery.
Tohno-chan is an anime-themed image board for NEETs, hikikomori, (true) otaku, and other social outcasts.
Lovely place to talk about otaku topics free from casual fans.
It is true that you are on slightly thinner ice on an anonymous board than in other spaces. This is mostly due to hostility being the most effective tool to protect loosely moderated communities (as most boards are) from being eternal-september'd. You will find that you will only experience hostility if you are blatantly disrespectful or belligerent towards the boards culture. In other words: lurk more.
The Post Office - hostility in imageboard culture
Some people have come to fear or condemn channers as a sort of boogeyman. This largely stems from not understanding anonymous culture, and having their only experience of it be through proxy of 4/pol/ types getting cancelled, and the belief that any association whatsoever with a "free speech" space is objectionable.
The case I will make is that the combination of freedom and anonymity is a blessing for creating stress free and open environments, and that objectionable behaviour is necessarily unavoidable, but protected against by community culture which may include hostility. This is supported by the fact that many self-identified "oldfags" will lament how insincere and angry modern 4chan has become.