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Cake day: June 8th, 2023

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  • If you wouldn’t mind, what makes you come back to that kind of content? I went to eyeblech once, out of some kind of morbid curiosity (and not really knowing what it was), but one video in particular is now permanently etched onto my retinas and I really wish I could unsee it. I’ve never been back there. A similar video that probably came from watchpeopledie is also still living in my brain. Also wish I could forget that one.

    So yeah, I sort of understand listening to (true) horror stories, true crime and all that, but I struggle to understand why you’d want to watch someone die as a pastime. Would love to hear your perspective on this.

    And to answer your question: yes, while I would not want to see that kind of content, it’ll probably get posted anyway and then it’d be better if it were hosted somewhere in a controlled manner on a special instance or something like that, so random people don’t accidentally bump into it. That particular instance should expect that other instances will defederate from them however. If only to make sure that the mods and admins don’t manually have to weed that out of their own instances.








  • The OS wars have always bugged me a little. On one hand you have iOS users acting all high and mighty and considering anything other than iPhone less, on the other there’s some snobby Android users that seem to think everyone that uses an iPhone is an idiot. Guess we can’t help but engage in us-vs-them thinking sometimes. Excluding people based on the tech they use makes absolutely zero sense to me though.

    I’ve used both iOS/MacOS and Android/Windows over the years and I can’t really say that one is inherently better than the other. Each platform excels in a different use case however and has different USPs.

    Anywho, just my two cents. Cheers!






  • Thank you for sharing :)

    I guess it’s easy to get sucked in the whole “I’m anonymous so I can do what I want without repercussions” thing and just become downright nasty towards people you don’t agree with (for some people at least). Ironically, at the same time you’ll quickly be downvoted into oblivion if your opinion is a little controversial. I’m sorry to hear you (and the stranger they thought was you for that matter) were on the receiving end of it. It’s something I certainly won’t miss from some subs…

    But hey, I’m a pacifist by nature and prefer knowing why people think things rather than just telling them their opinions are wrong. So what do I know :')



  • I had never even heard about the Boston Bombings till now (or I don’t remember it, not an American), but damn, that whole situation got all kinds of messed up. I can understand wanting the perpetrators being brought to justice, but slandering random people who bear a minor resemblance to a suspect makes no sense to me.

    Out of curiosity, how should the admins have reacted the witch-hunts in your opinion? I’ve never really used the old frontpage or r/popular so I’m not very familiar with how their usage would be affected tbh.