shsl-fujoshi: The social-media Web as we knew it, a place where we consumed the posts of our fellow-humans and posted in return, appears to be over. The precipitous decline of X is the bellwether for a new era of the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
ginstermoff: I just had a zoomer telling me: “uhm I know there are awful things on the internet, I grew up with my little pony gore” 😭😭😭 Sweetie, you’re 18 and if my little pony gore is the worst you[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
insecateur: hey just so you know discord hotlinking finally officially ended so if you had pictures hosted on discord somewhere (like in a fanfic or whatever) you should switch to another host asap all discord image links in the older[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
cascigarette: yall need to learn to be nicer to people online :///
beesmygod: beesmygod: before contributing to a conversation online, one should think: is this a valuable contribution? am i educated enough in this subject to speak authoritatively on it? is what im about to say something that’s probably been observed hundreds[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
shamebats: shamebats: shamebats: We really do need to bring back the word “trolling” and warning ppl not to feed the trolls That TikTok of ppl pouring tomato sauce directly on the counter, adding spaghetti & mixing it with their hands[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
natalieironside: The problem is I’m good at saying a bunch of bullshit, but I’m only good at saying a bunch of bullshit via textual mediums and that’s much harder to monetize than video
the-sunshine-dims: when your online friends live so far way from you and its just i want my friends!!! i want give them hugs!! i wanna casually go to the store and bring back a candy i know they’d like because[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
what-a-bastard: I think posts that are like “well it’s okay I wasn’t supervised on the internet as a kid because there wasn’t as much bad stuff then! The worst you could run into is porn!” are wild cause like I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
futureevilscientist: @gender-euphowrya Great question. The answer to that is: Because AO3, and only AO3, was created specifically as a reaction to mass fanfiction purges (usually anything adult and anything queer) on Livejournal and Fanfiction.net and its mission statement is to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
oldwebsurfing: Various Anime Desktop Themes, 90′sFound at otakuworld.com
Please Stop Closing Forums And Moving People To Discord
Kotaku making a rare good post (even if many others have said it already) – the transition from forums to Discord is the transition from an open, archived, searchable internet to a fleeting, cloistered, and real-time-only internet.
When you realize in hindsight the Megatokyo Forums were peak internet infrastructure…
foone: catshinji: hmm. Google Groups is dropping support for Usenet in February of 2024. September 1993 is finally, finally coming to an end.
prokopetz: prokopetz: prokopetz: In practice, ship tags on AO3 don’t really tell you anything beyond “these two characters are present in the same scene at the same time” (and sometimes not even that!), so the lack of them on an[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
everytingbagl: doujin community 😭😭
onlinebeast: onlinebeast: Remember when a few years ago we were all hyper vigilant about fascist dogwhistles and now cut to today where wojaks, “soyface”, sigma male, and chad are used as common parlance by leftists and nobody gives a fuck?[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
crazy-pages: strawberrygirldick: kkshowtunes: google siting ao3 as a source is so unhinged Google is quickly approaching a fucking unusable state So I started using duckduckgo a little over a year ago. At my research job I was advised to be[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
If anyone’s curious how Pillowfort’s doing… Uhhhhhhhh….. bad.
emeritusterzo: Awesome! Women rule! #blocked
dead-pidove-do-not-eat: There are so many ways to make social media less toxic for it’s users but that would require actually building spaces that don’t prioritize wringing every single penny out of the people who visit them… So, it’s out of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
freaksoft: pyroinfusedtiger: videodante: cohost dot org is a new website cohost is a lot like tumblr. you can have a blog, you can reblog things. cohost is also a lot NOT like tumblr. it’s explicitly anti-algorithm, no ads, and extremely[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Sadly not. The web–hah– or more accurately social media is in a state of limbo right now between generations. The old field is rotting, but the new pasture has not yet been dug. My best recommendation is to sign up[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
telltaletypist: telltaletypist: it’s wild that virtually all modern digital infrastructure is built to constantly spy on us and harvast our data for advertising yet online advertsing is still basically worthless and nobody seems to actually be benefitting from all this[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
if I went back in time to the early 2000s/2010s one thing I would change is I would make it standard to be able to set and search “primary tags” a set of 1-3 tags in a tagging system that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
prokopetz: A lot of folks are responding to the whole Reddit situation by calling for the return of decentralised forums, and I think it’s important to remember that, contrary to certain popular narratives, the reason early 2000s forum culture has[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I miss the web when it was small, and strange, and full of small, strange people.
headspace-hotel: headspace-hotel: headspace-hotel: No offense but the internet gives you the most wrong and fucked up idea of helping people because people get mad if you don’t care about disasters happening in 72 countries, meanwhile the people in real life[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
How to prepare for, and recover from, getting your account terminated Here are some ways you can be prepared to recover from a termination with a new account. NUMBER ONE TIP: Create a task to auto-backup every post you make[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Yeah I bet it was a huge culture shock! It’s so interesting to see the things that people miss learning about! context link Source: xxblackheartbiohazardsxx
Yeah, modern web users don’t understand SEO, tagging, metadata, etc. It’s sad and frustrating and causes nothing but problems :c Source: xxblackheartbiohazardsxx
I’m so glad! yeah all of our sideblogs have two or three admin accounts that we control <3 context link Source: xxharryosbornxx
Mass-reporting to trigger auto-termination is a sadly common tactic among abusers and cyberbullies online in order to harm people who are posting things they disagree with. Here are some ways you can be prepared to recover from a wrongful termination[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
“The pains series” referred to a series of images commonly circulated on the old internet with the intent to cause pain and disturb the viewer. These images were passed around untagged, uncensored and unwarned for, often under deceptive links, to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…