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This is the thing entirely. So much of the NSFW content is abusive. The HN crowd is mostly safe from such attacks so this is a real blindspot.
That's why I only use OnlyFans these days. The industry that produces free porn for pornhub etc is incredibly abusive. Disintermediation here removes a lot of scumbags
Tumblr 2.0 incoming? It's a not-so-unspoken fact that a lot of social media platforms are popular because they have tons of pornography. Reddit, Twitter, OnlyFans (more openly) and (until now) Imgur all have massive communities around explicit content. Even Twitch and YouTube are hugely successful as ways for OnlyFans creators to drive users to their explicit content. Going to be very interesting to see if imgur drop…
I mean the site is ad infested and slow as hell to load, such a fall from their former grace when they were seen as an internet darling next to photobucket type sites when options for uploading and hotlinking were limited due to bandwidth constraints. I think Reddit started hosting their own content or whatever the redgif site is seems to have taken over Imgur for a while now and the images/vids load lightning fast i…
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Isn't Imgur a fairly popular social media in its own right similar to Reddit? According to this https://blog.gitnux.com/imgur-statistics/ it has 300 million active monthly users, and if you go there and click around on a few images it seems to have as many comments as Reddit does. I don't really use either sites, but isn't Reddit mostly a collection of links to content from other places? Whenever I needed to share an…
Almost no generalization if Reddit will ever work, as it's closer to a forum host than any other social-ish media. I read many subreddits that are predominantly text-only selfposts. Of course, some of them use NSFW tagging for spoilers …
No bullshit image hosting from https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=stavros : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21627714
paid-only no thanks
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Rights aren’t limited by geographic distinctions, if you’re a human you have rights (or don’t, as is the case here).
They absolutely are. "Right" is just a name for "freedom or protection some people decided they like a whole bunch". There's no absolute, certain standard for what they are. Absent laws and/or norms protecting them, they do not, in any meaningful sense, exist. (yes, yes, I'm aware of the concept of "natural rights", I've read the Second Treatise, blah blah—it's a pretty idea, but it's weak, to put it mildly)
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I think we live in an increasingly neo-victorian age. It's not just sex. It has become toxic to express a wide range of opinions. For example, the systematic deplatforming of conservatives. (I am a liberal, and my need to state that to be taken seriously is further evidence of all this.)
Genuine question, what does deplatforming conservatives have to do with Victorianism?
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This is the thing entirely. So much of the NSFW content is abusive. The HN crowd is mostly safe from such attacks so this is a real blindspot.
Yes, tech bros are safe from others wanting them for anything outside of their minds.
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Genuine question, what does deplatforming conservatives have to do with Victorianism?
It's a narrowing of the Overton window, not any one specific topic being accepted in public discourse.
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the site is ad infested and slow as hell to load, such a fall from their former grace when they were seen as an internet darling This is the cycle of a lot of ad-driven businesses. They start out sleek and quick to load because they’re ad-free. They grow insanely fast and burn runway. Then they begin loading the site down with ads to monetize the users. This leads to a gradual exodus and eventual death (or death in t…
Enshittification [0] [0] https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-platforms-cory-doctorow/
Instagram is victim to this trying to follow every trend and turning themselves into another WeChat that has every feature ever.