i love the modern web

The term "unalive" is so cringey yet dystopian that I don't know whether to feel embarrassed or concerned when I hear it.

I've been so deep into fediverse stuff that I forgot about that. I feel blessed

The US religious fundamentalists have managed to impose their fucked up values on the world. Calling it "family values" was always a lie.

Yup.

If I can't say basic words and facts like, this woman was raped, this man died, etc.

I just don't use the website in any meaningful way.

George Carlin warned us about this 30 years ago.

I'd link to it but I'm in the middle of a severance theory video.

I've been saying for years that the advertiser-friendly neo-puritanicalism that was infecting the left was a trojan horse for conservatism, and then here we are.

wait huh? there's no way it's that bad, right?

i luv y'all, fedi frens! ~ <3

Twitter is filled with porn and racism but still has payment processing and ads. 4chan has payment processing. I don't think this is a universal truth. It's more like some sites purposefully chose to have strict guidelines for whatever reasons.

I blame the rise of nu-puritanism on Google and payment processors. It's a load of bullshit that people can't even have negative feelings these days.

funnily enough on tiktok you can say "fuckass" but you cant say someone's intelligence is akin to that of a toaster or that someone is stupid. i have also seen the n word multiple times

The companies doing this are americans and americans are pussies who think sitting in sauna naked with your same-sex family members is traumatic but watching endless gore is fun. The mindless religious zealotry, their puritan ancestors and lack of separation between church and real life is to blame.

I think the issue is that these platforms are motivated by advertisers. I can build a Reddit clone in a weekend and have it be ad-free. It's not expensive to host text + urls - which was how old.reddit.com used to operate. It's basically a few dollars a month or I could host it out of my house for the cost of electricity (and security). And, without advertisers, I don't really care what I host so long as it doesn't directly contributing to harming others.

The main issues are:

• No one wants to join a platform devoid of content
• Once you reach a large enough platform that people want to join, it might require revenue streams to afford the scale
• It's hard for people to even find platforms (Google will direct you to the top 5: Facebook, Reddit, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok)

The modern infrastructure hasn't changed. It's still HTTP and servers. The problem is internet culture. We used to use the internet as an extension of our community. We could share links, forums, etc. in person (bizarre, I know). But now the internet is our entire community. And there is little drive to participate in niche communities. People like to be heard and to engage quickly on the internet which requires a large-ish platform (Lemmy is a good example of this).

Fediverse and DNS sinkholes FTW. Any way I can avoid becoming someone's money is nice.

Relatively easy fix though. Get away from advertiser supported platforms and use community supported ones.

I mean, obviously this is true and a huge issue, but that's part of what the Fediverse aims to address. Mainstream social media is fucked and done for.

Yeah, I dont understand either. Why the fuck cant you say suicide? When someone kills themselves, thats suicide, not 'unalive'.

Whats next, people cant even say 'unalive'?

The adult stuff goes deeper.

There are furries.

Deeper than that, there are bronies and non-bronie MLP (FIM) enthusiasts.

And below that, there are furries who like animal genitalia.

And at this point, a few miles down into the abyss, there are lolis.

ETA What should be under lolis but isn't is CECOT. That is, is appears family friendly enough for VISA, also very real and sponsored and used by the US.

It's either that or I unleash the fedposting lmao.