Wow fuck, I was on there sketching portraits of people just yesterday. This really sucks. RIP
Omegle 2009-2023
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Re: Omegle 2009-2023
#152Earlier quoted context omitted.
By that standard I cannot see how any reasonable person could justify building anything at all; most of us, not being evil bastards, have imaginations which will simply fail to suggest such uses.
He's not saying don't build anything. He's saying think about the potential for misuse (and implying, take reasonable steps to prevent it). This seems completely sensible to me.
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Re: Omegle 2009-2023
#153Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can you meet people randomly on any of those services? That would be an interesting feature.
WeChat has a shake feature, also a people near me feature. I think telegram also has a location based feature.
"People near me" is sort of the opposite of Omegle.
Re: Omegle 2009-2023
#154Elsewhere in the thread this article with an embedded video was linked: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-64618791
The video, showing a BBC “journalist” attempting to ambush Leif, is one of the most… existentially disgusting? videos I’ve seen in a long, long time.
It’s so utterly performative. Such a transparent attempt by the “journalist” at painting himself as a certain sort of person. Not a single genuine emotion, action, expression, or word. Absolutely soulless and desperate attempt to virtue signal in the even more desperate hope of furthering his career. This “man” is no better than someone selling themselves on onlyfans. Actually, I’d posit he’s worse: the entire schtick requires disingenuous postering.
I don’t know what to do when seeing stuff like this. It’s depressing. I hope one day there’s a return to a much smaller internet and these people deign to just leave us alone. He’s a sad man and the fact his doing this will may well advantage him is even sadder. I guess I’ll go take a walk.
Re: Omegle 2009-2023
#155Earlier quoted context omitted.
I find it interesting that the "magical period" seems to be determined by your age. For me, the internet has already lost its magic by the time the mid 2000s came around, well before Omegle came out in 2009. For me, the magical period was the early 90s, when I was growing up. In 15 years, are people going to be talking about the current internet as the time when the magic was there? It seems more about the magic of c…
Yeah it’s like how my dad says SNL peaked when he was 18 and I say it peaked when I was 18.
Everyone can agree it peak a long time ago.
Re: Omegle 2009-2023
#156Earlier quoted context omitted.
How is age verification easy?
Why isn’t having an “over 18?” checkbox enough to have lawsuits brought by children (at the time or later) thrown out unceremoniously?
Because kids can check checkboxes no problem? And it’s not even a real attempt at verification?
Is this a real question?
If someone showed up at a bar, would a bouncer accept that?
Re: Omegle 2009-2023
#157Earlier quoted context omitted.
Alas, the universe can stay unjust longer than we can stay conscious.
Still, a society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they will never sit in.
Platitudes might help maintain optimism, but how do you get old clear-cutters and strip-miners to start planting trees?
Re: Omegle 2009-2023
#158I don't know the whole story, but this seems very genuine. It echoes a sentiment I imagine many people my age feel, where the magic of the early internet we witnessed during our coming of age feels threatened. I feel for him, and hope he's able to move onto other projects which aren't as stressful.
It’s possible to have multiple periods of “magic” as the internet improves in capability over time and people find new ways to use it.
Re: Omegle 2009-2023
#159I've never used Omegle myself, but I've watched all of Harry Mack's Omegle Bars videos (freestyle rapping) and they are golden. Always fun to see him matched with some random kids and brighten their day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijVGIcVRIbk
I just discovered him yesterday and ended up watching something like 20 videos last night. This was also the first thought that came to my mind when I was reading the announcement.
Re: Omegle 2009-2023
#160Touching