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Re: Omegle 2009-2023

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Post by Tijdreiziger »

sublimefire wrote: post #634
low_tech_love wrote: post #568

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 anyth…

Multiple years ago it was something to us - something new. There are too many people who do not care about it (similar services) these days, people are born with the internet and just take it for granted. Another analogy could be the gas car industry. We just look at it differently nowadays, we prioritize pollution and do not think much of the fact that you could easily travel around the world in any of these gas guz…

> we prioritize pollution and do not think much of the fact that you could easily travel around the world in any of these gas guzzlers

This example supports your point, but not in the way you think.

Back when Bertha Benz (wife of Karl Benz, the founder of Mercedes-Benz) took the first ‘road trip’ to another part of Germany, she had to fill up the tank at a local chemist, had to cool the engine with water from ditches and streams, and had to have her brakes repaired by a local cobbler. [1]

Nowadays, people take it for granted that cars are reliable and that there are gas stations everywhere.

[1] https://www.hotcars.com/the-story-of-bertha-benz-and-the-fir...

Re: Omegle 2009-2023

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Post by Bud »

master-lincoln wrote: post #641
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

An 11 year old alone on the internet...their parents should be prosecuted, not the messaging platform

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Re: Omegle 2009-2023

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Post by ParetoOptimal »

subpixel wrote: post #741
donkeyd wrote: post #684

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've been on the internet since I was about 10 years old (I estimate). My parents knew (and understood) maybe 10% of what I did on there. As a minor, I did multiple criminal things online, some of them successful, others not so much. If I was a kid in 2023, I probably would've been arrested at some point in time. Because of what I know about the internet and because I know what kids will do with unlimited access, I t…

I volunteer in my local public school in the US. The sad fact is that stable family structure, by any definition, is collapsing and that kids are suffering. The percentage of kids in grade school who have an absent, incarcerated, addicted, mentally unhealthy, or generally dysfunctional parent is off the charts. Parents who are unable to give their kids the tools they need to avoid getting shunted into special educati…

> I’m no longer surprised when I find a mother’s Onlyfans link, FFS.

It's far more likely that lower income is the reason for poor parenting than "mom has an onlyfans".

Re: Omegle 2009-2023

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Post by password54321 »

tpetry wrote: post #506
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.

We had some years of kind-of stability in the world with no significant big wars. But with recent events the world is feeling like "it is burning". Just because we got accustomed to the more peacefull live. So, I wouldn't say its like "we always thought that". Its more like we had a good short phase and now its back to normal. Or maybe the good phase is the normal and the pendulum swings back?

The world would be much better if people learnt that wars even in places far from them such as between the middle east and the US, would have a network affect and bring instability to other parts of the world and soon near them. The world started "burning" again with the war on Iraq / Afghanistan.

Re: Omegle 2009-2023

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Post by Bud »

fkyoureadthedoc wrote: post #739
concordDance wrote: post #718

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A large portion of commentators here greatly dislike the idea of unmonitored interactions between humans. Their ideal is that every person's cellphone continuously records nearby conversations and sends them to the police where they can run large language models to provide a shortlist of dangerous communications that a policeman can then look at and charge for.

We all know this is not true, not even close. Read through the comments here, there's a clear overwhelming majority opinion blaming the family rather than the company. Even beyond this post, I've never seen this called for on this site. You are in a clear majority position but still pretend to be persecuted and victimized by an imagined boogeyman.

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Re: Omegle 2009-2023

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Post by 2devnull »

0xDEAFBEAD wrote: post #654
Emma_Goldman wrote: post #553

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

>If you haven't noticed, advanced economies are experiencing secularly stagnating growth Is growth really what we should care about though? Would you prefer to live in a poor society that's growing rapidly, or a rich society that's stagnating? In terms of your quality of life (medical, food, housing, education, etc.) you're going to have a better time in the stagnant-but-rich society. The American economy is actually…

I’d much rather be in a poor but growing economy than a rich stagnating one. I’m very sure about that.

Re: Omegle 2009-2023

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Post by Pigalowda »

I’m not sure why Omegle isn’t being propped up by big tech players for this case. If Omegle loses it sets a tremendously bad precedent.

My patience and understanding for the woman suing is completely dried up. She’s trying to make the entire world of communication a worse place.

What’s next, the ISP is sued for carrying the traffic? It’s absurd. She must go down.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-64618791

Re: Omegle 2009-2023

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Post by Cthulhu_ »

dheera wrote: post #516
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…

Maybe we should create a DeFi version of this that doesn't have an owner and can't be sued. Things like Omegle should be likened to an empty grass field in the middle of town, with nobody responsible for what actually happens on it except the people who choose to be there.

Your analogy is skewed though; if you just show up on a field and get flashed, you aren't responsible for that, the other person is. For example.

Re: Omegle 2009-2023

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Post by Cthulhu_ »

Galanwe wrote: post #742
andrepd wrote: post #525

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is a bad take on several levels. First the de-fi angle. You want a distributed application, no need to shoehorn crypto into there. But second and most important: the ultralibertarian angle of "you chose to be there so you take respinsabolity for whatever happens to you" is also not good. For one, there's children. For another, moderation and law enforcement is a good thing. Whatever replaces omegle will almost c…

If there is no incentive to operate the network, who will sustain the infrastructure? If there is no cost to using the system, how do you prevent spam abuse? This is what crypto solves. It doesn't have to be a get rich scheme, just issue tokens to those that run the network, and have users consume tokens when they send messages.

But it doesn't solve it; it just deters some of it. If all it takes is to pay money, you can wave your penis at anyone. A paid service applies a downward pressure on spam, sure, but you can't go without moderation.
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