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It was like a somewhat more positive counterpart to 4chan, it was full of madness, toxicity and vice, and also a space for creativity like few others. It was a
by forgetfulness 3y ago
It was like a somewhat more positive counterpart to 4chan, it was full of madness, toxicity and vice, and also a space for creativity like few others.
It was also one of the walled gardens, even if it always felt more open than the rest, but the web continues to weaken as content creation and delivery continues to be consolidated in the exploitative platforms of Meta, TikTok, and now to a smaller degree, X, with their recommendation algorithms fine tuned to make you an addict to parasocial relationships and negative emotions.
- eastbound 3y ago[flagged]
- AlexandrB 3y agoHave you been on Instagram lately?
- ben_w 3y agoMy IG feed is 80% WeRateDogs, most of the rest is silly-positive stuff. I've not ever seen erotica on there, barely even seen any ribaldry. It has learned my tastes well. I don't know how much variation there is in other people's feeds, of course, but that you think IG is a good example implies your feed is showing you very different things to mine.
- spacemadness 3y agoThis seems like satanic panic style paranoia. Dropping a hot take like that, especially with “literally” thrown in, needs a bit more content to mean anything. To start, I don’t know how any site “makes people addicted to porn.” Why? Because it has porn? So what?
- dragonwriter 3y ago> Tumblr literally made people addict to porn. “Porn addiction” seems largely to be an evangelical Christian shame mechanism more than (and possibly instead of) an actual phenomenon.
- Eumenes 3y agoYou don't think the millions of hours of widely available online porno has any impact on our culture or how people view sex? It's incredibly ignorant to think that "evangelical Christians" are the only ones opposed to porn
- dragonwriter 3y ago> You don't think the millions of hours of widely available online porno has any impact on our culture or how people view sex? No, hence why I didn't say that. > It's incredibly ignorant to think that "evangelical Christians" are the only ones opposed to porn Lots of people are opposed to porn. The idea of porn addiction, OTOH, is very strongly associated with religiosity in general, and certain socially consevative Christian subcultures in particular. Being opposed to a thing and thinking that association with it fits in an addiction model aren't the same thing.
- Eumenes 3y agoThe WHO recognizes "porn addiction" so its not some conspiracy theory. Not that I trust the WHO. Looks like porn is available for sale, possession, and production in almost all Christian majority nations, but not Islamic ones - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pornography_laws_by_region https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pornography_laws_by_region
- phpisthebest 3y ago>>so its not some conspiracy theory. I can not think of legitimate organization that is more filled with conspiracy theory than the UN.. so citing "well this UN organization says it so it can be conspiracy" is very ironic
- eastbound 3y agoAre you saying the Covid is fake?
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- user_7832 3y ago> Tumblr literally made people addict to porn. Are we allowed to blame the internet, or the transistor for such effects too?
- AlexandrB 3y agoDon't forget YouTube. Video thumbnails seem to be converging on a few clickbaity templates - probably to appease "the algorithm". Not even LockPickingLawyer is safe.