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Omegle 2009-2023

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Re: Omegle 2009-2023

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Post by johnnyanmac »

notimetorelax wrote: post #468
mikeyouse wrote: post #449

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You'll notice that all of those sites have registrations where you have to create an account and affirm that you're over the age of 13 rather than just putting "Don't use this if you're under 13" in tiny print at the bottom of a page. Even Chatroulette has a big popup where you have to affirm you're over 18 and that you agree to their terms and conditions before using the site..

What does this accomplish?

it's the difference between an open and closed (unlocked) door. Very small actions can be a surprising deterrent for many people.

Re: Omegle 2009-2023

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Post by mananaysiempre »

zo1 wrote: post #482
ThrowawayTestr wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Didn't the ALCU defend Nazis in the past?

Everyone here keeps using that word, and I'm sitting here confused. Can we sit down and define it, or are we to forever just throw it around as a convenient "bad people"?

In the case I expect the OP meant[1], it was the National Socialist Party of America, an explicitly neo-Nazi organization.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Socialist_Party_of_Am...

Re: Omegle 2009-2023

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Post by zigman1 »

midasz wrote: post #534
permo-w wrote: post #280

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>probably-too-offensive-to-the-current-generation rabbithole 4chan offensiveness isn't so much a generational thing as it is a personality thing

Teenage me loved the edginess. Adult me just finds it boring. More like a phase thing to me.

I find people who love edginess to feel some sort of moral or intellectual superiority to the commons or people they often communicate (example, in high school where you really have a random mixture of all kinds of personalities). Definitely a phase kind of thing

Re: Omegle 2009-2023

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Post by southwesterly »

sMarsIntruder wrote: post #451

> I worry that, unless the tide turns soon, the Internet I fell in love with may cease to exist, and in its place, we will have something closer to a souped-up version of TV – focused largely on passive consumption, with much less opportunity for active participation and genuine human connection. You’re not alone my friend. The “old good times” internet is long gone and the situation is evolving very fast.

The old internet is still definitely knocking around. Head out past the walled-gardens into the hinterlands and it’s there. You’re gonna need your own map though.

Re: Omegle 2009-2023

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Post by [deleted] »

tremere wrote: post #500

The site was rife with perverts, Neo-Nazi propaganda, CSAM distribution, and honeypot operations. I think people are idealizing what it was in recent years, believing it was the same fun as in the early 2010s. It was an absolute shitshow. The owner acts like Omegle was about innocent curious internet explorers asking cute questions and spreading knowledge. Bull shit. I never met a professor on Omegle. The most common…

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Re: Omegle 2009-2023

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Post by panki27 »

unsupp0rted wrote: post #416

> In recent years, it seems like the whole world has become more ornery Have people always thought this (e.g. "the youth of today are lazy") or is it measurably true? I feel like it's obviously true.

> Have people always thought this [...]?

Yes. https://history.stackexchange.com/q/28169

Re: Omegle 2009-2023

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Post by vasco »

Emma_Goldman wrote: post #553
eru wrote: post #419

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Even a non-golden era can have something truly valuable. Btw, we are living in a golden age. The vast majority of humanity has never had it better.

That's a bit simplistic. If you haven't noticed, advanced economies are experiencing secularly stagnating growth, a crisis of democratic representation and its populist backlash, the return of oligarchic inequality to levels not seen since the gilded age, and extreme social atomisation and mental health breakdown. We are also all hurtling towards catastrophic climate change, an AI revolution that could lead to genera…

> Also, the global 'we' is unhelpful. Have native Americans, Syrians or Greeks never had it so good?

Syrians are starving and in war, so they've been better. The other two examples, undoubtedly yes they are better than ever. For anyone to think it was better in any other time in history for most of the global population than now, shows such a lack of knowledge of history and the human condition that its hard to take serious. For someone so concerned with the future of humanity to create a problem with referring to all humans as "we" is a bit rich.

Scrolling instagram and fake depressions aren't worse than having 7 miscarriages, half your kids dying as babies or children, being enslaved, starving to death and a million other nice things most humans had to deal with that they don't have to deal with now. Basic access to medicine, food stability etc, on a large scale is so much better. We have the fewest people living in poverty there ever was.

Wanting to better ourselves and being aware the Maslow hierarchy continues to create infinite steps should not blind you to the amount of work millions of humans over generations have done to create such an easy mode version of the world for us. To not at least acknowledge it and just say it all sucks is myopic at the minimum.

Re: Omegle 2009-2023

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Post by low_tech_love »

Maybe I’m wrong, but my impression is that it has been a living-dead service for many years already. I’m old enough to remember when it was actually exciting to use Omegle and chat roulette, but I’ve tried on and off for many years now and my impression is that, even at the slight chance that you got someone other than a naked horny weirdo, nobody was really paying attention to the conversation or interested in anything other than 15-second meaningless interaction. We certainly lost something nice here at some point but I’m not sure it happened today.

Re: Omegle 2009-2023

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Post by low_tech_love »

HaZeust wrote: post #548

This hits me particularly hard. I met relationships, mentors, peers, pupils, friends of philosophy, fellow software developers, builders, dreamers, businessmen - and everything in between - from Omegle, all in different stages of my life. I've messaged each and every one of them, just now, about the news - on the many platforms I added friends from Omegle with. Conversations on Omegle changed my politics, it changed…

Is it something from a long time ago or did you manage to do that in recent years too? Just curious.

Re: Omegle 2009-2023

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Post by lwhi »

eddiewithzato wrote: post #184
SamPatt wrote: post #18

I 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.

The magic died when majority of the population got access thanks to the iPhone and androids that came.

It was when people learnt how to make money from the internet.

The corporatisation of net ruined it.

Not much can survive the incentive of profit.

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