This is one things on my long list of things to try that I never got around to, and now, never will.
Omegle 2009-2023
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Re: Omegle 2009-2023
#912Earlier quoted context omitted.
Teenage me loved the edginess. Adult me just finds it boring. More like a phase thing to me.
Our generation grew up on offensive / edginess, things like late 90's shock rock, South Park, Jackass, Saw, etc. Nobody cares anymore, and it feels like nobody's tried to out-edge series like South Park. It feels like we've reached rock bottom so the only way is up. Which is a good thing btw.
Series like Paradise PD are more trash and less politically edgy. I think you're right.
Re: Omegle 2009-2023
#913This brings back some amazing memories. If I remember correctly, the original inspiration for Omegle came from 4chan; or more precisely, a user thought of stretching the limits of "anonymous free speech" to realtime communications, and came up with the idea in late 2007. The PoC server for it was nothing more than "telnet to this IP" and it was sporadically advertised on 4chan for a short while. Astonishingly, Google…
>probably-too-offensive-to-the-current-generation rabbithole 4chan offensiveness isn't so much a generational thing as it is a personality thing
A community is defined by the selection process.
People who aren't sensitive to the general offensiveness of these communities come from all backgrounds and are effectively tolerant of each other in ways that are meaningful to them.
Re: Omegle 2009-2023
#914Earlier quoted context omitted.
Same as the odds of every other child that was ever conceived. It's really easy to look backwards in time, think of every single "if this never happened..." moment, and conclude that the probability is near zero. And you would be right.
exactly. think about your existence. You wouldn't exist if your parents hadn't met and reproduced, and if their parents hadn't met and reproduced, and so on until you get to our monocellular ancestor. Everyone here is the product of a very long, unbroken line of ancestry spanning back billions of years! If any of those ancestors had not chosen to reproduce, you don't exist. It's mindblowing to me. Actually one of the…
I had a friend who would say the following the middle aged female friends who didn’t have daughters:
Did your mom have a daughter? Female answers “yes”
Did her mom have a daughter? Yes
Did her mom have a daughter? Yes
This lineage of course extends beyond even human history back to Proto life forms.
And then you end it with “after all that, you’re ending the legacy by not having a daughter”.
Re: Omegle 2009-2023
#915The app is full of pedophiles. It will not be missed.
Only because the platform also has kids on it. Both groups still exist. My guess is both groups will just spend more time on other platforms like Roblox.
Re: Omegle 2009-2023
#916Omegle was a horrible place that was not moderated enough and enabled groomers. It was also a place that felt very "old school internet" due to the "wild west style".
Parents allowing children to have limitless, unmonitored access to the internet is more to blame than any given platform.
Re: Omegle 2009-2023
#917Earlier quoted context omitted.
100%. Adults who still enjoy that "edgy" style of communication and entertainment always come off as super immature. There's something in there about human development and pushing boundaries in your youth, I'm certain. Also, it did feel great as a teen from a very backwards rural area, to be on the very bleeding edge of internet culture. Knowing the memes before anyone else was secretly satisfying.
I think there's a phrase for it: Kids are assholes.
As a father (29) whose daughter (5) told him that she didn't like his gray hair because it means he is gonna die soon, can confirm.
Re: Omegle 2009-2023
#918Re: Omegle 2009-2023
#919If I could unmake the Internet I would in a second, without hesitation. The lack of local community as everyone moves to a global gray sameness is the grossest thing to happen to this world. Using it as a crutch to fool yourself into what you think is normal is not healthy and it's not a solution to real problems. Omegle disappearing is neither surprising nor sad, and it's nothing personal against them specifically.…
We must refuse the Khala to maintain our individuality. Like the Nerazim.
Re: Omegle 2009-2023
#920Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I don't quite get your point.
A blockchain is just an infrastructure on top of which you run your business logic. In a sense, it's similar to what AWS would be in a centralised world.
So basically, you can add whatever registration, moderation, etc. logic on top of your infrastructure layer, whether it is built upon a blockchain, AWS, self-hosted or whatnot.
What blockchain gives you is something distributed, battle-tested, and some form of economics between infrastructure providers and platform users.
You can still decide to mimic existing business models of, say, Google on top of it. Give users unlimited free tokens on this blockchain if they provide you read access to their messages. Of course it seems outrageous stated like that, but it's pretty much the same business model than Gmail at the end of the day, with the advantage that users not willing to share their data can just buy usage tokens if they prefer.