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Omegle 2009-2023

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Re: Omegle 2009-2023

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Post by sanroot99 »

melvinmelih wrote: post #69

> But it became popular almost instantly after launch, and grew organically from there, reaching millions of daily users. The law of big numbers dictate that if there’s even a tiny chance of a catastrophic event it has close to 100% probability of happening if n is just large enough (in the case of millions of daily users, probably multiple catastrophic events per day). This kind of asymmetrical risk is very hard to…

I think lot of problems from real world get projected to social media in meta form, we can also say lives of people has gone worse since web 2.0, hence rise of such cases, but increase scale of platform also contribute to probability of malice

Re: Omegle 2009-2023

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Post by ConorSheehan1 »

soulofmischief wrote: post #460
Blahah wrote: post #103

Gives me chills, that was so heartfelt and raw. Hurt on all sides, but this is a bit like losing access to a public space because someone committed crimes there. One of the greatest things Omegle enabled is this... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhzHV9QD0Is (Harry Mack freestyling for random Omegle matches, it was a series of 90+ episodes and brought me and others so much joy during COVID)

My first thought was, what is Harry Mack going to do now??

The Doo and Marcus Veltri too. So many world class musicians show up randomly on omegle

Re: Omegle 2009-2023

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Post by huseyinkeles »

justsid wrote: post #286
ijustlovemath wrote: post #198

This is devastating. I have so many fond memories of meeting fellow weirdos over text. The days where StumbleUpon always took you somewhere exciting, cool, beautiful, interesting, funny, or novel. Where you looked at what people did with The Web 2.0 and only marveled at the possibilities of what could come. Truly feels like the death of one of the old guard, a Usenet-of-the-2010s. I even used it during pandemic times…

I didn’t use Omegle much, but I actually met my now wife on there. We used the text only thing where a third person suggests a topic. Must’ve talked for a good 2 hours on there before exchanging informations, I shudder thinking that even the smallest glitch could have changed my life so drastically. We met 11 years ago on the platform, a completely random fluke. And while I haven’t really used Omegle in a long time,…

Think about all the infinite numbers of glitches that happened in the past and prevented you to meet other possible wives :)

Re: Omegle 2009-2023

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Post by throwaway290 »

buf wrote: post #620
thrawn0r wrote: post #594

More specific information about why its closing down are lawsuits of groomed minors. press coverage of 1 case: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-64618791

Couldn't this have been any website with a messaging system on it? Twitter, facebook, even email. I don't get how they can sue Omegle for this. Edit: was it because of the video component of Omegle?

Twitter, Facebook, Gmail, Telegram, WhatsApp, Zoom and all those companies with UGC have this, responsible ones report it (Meta does lots, not sure Twitter does anymore, Telegram never did).

> I don't get how they can sue Omegle for this.

Take it as a sign that if tech community doesn't wake up and own up to this and try to solve the issue somehow then not just individual services but the entire idea of e2ee messaging is going to become illegal...

Re: Omegle 2009-2023

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Post by egorfine »

lazide wrote: post #146
melvinmelih wrote: post #69

> But it became popular almost instantly after launch, and grew organically from there, reaching millions of daily users. The law of big numbers dictate that if there’s even a tiny chance of a catastrophic event it has close to 100% probability of happening if n is just large enough (in the case of millions of daily users, probably multiple catastrophic events per day). This kind of asymmetrical risk is very hard to…

Just because someone got struck by lightning while playing golf, doesn’t make golf dangerous to play.

Playing golf, no. Providing a golf field service in the US - yes, absolutely.

Re: Omegle 2009-2023

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Post by rsynnott »

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.

Yes; moaning about both the youth of today and old people goes back, at least, millennia (though there are sometimes cultural taboos against moaning about old people which dampens that down).

My pet half-serious theory is that we currently talk a lot about the dastardly millennials and boomers because senior media staff are largely genX; note that we don't hear much about genX these days. This will start to change in a few years as genX starts to age out, and suddenly everyone will be complaining about genX and genZ. Whole new stereotypes will have to be forged (the old genX stereotypes from the 80s are very youth-of-today oriented and won't work for moaning about old people), and no-one will ever mention avocados again.

Re: Omegle 2009-2023

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Post by heroiccocoa »

It was the purest form of social media before social media was even a thing. In an age where it's increasingly more difficult for people to meet a lot of others accessibly, it's a shame.

Re: Omegle 2009-2023

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Post by praptak »

Dalewyn wrote: post #412
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

I will forever respect and cherish 4chan because it's pure, undiluted humanity in all its goodness and badness.

Dunno, it feels very diluted nowadays to me.
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