Be it Lemmy, Mastodon, or some other instance on some other service.

  • coldv@lemmy.world
    9·
    1 year ago

    There is a write up somewhere about this but I can’t find it right now…

    There is a mastodon instance that bans the letter “e” https://oulipo.social/ it’s basically a writing exercise and challenge.

    In response, https://dolphin.town/ is born. Where you can only use the letter “e”, even usernames.

    Edit: found the write up! It even contains a brief interaction between users from both instances! https://interconnected.org/home/2022/07/12/folktale

  • ElectroVagrant@lemmy.world
    1·
    1 year ago

    Since a lot of these replies veer into the not safe for life, gross, or sexual, I think I’m just gonna mention the mundanely “weird” few Hubzilla or Misskey instances I’ve stumbled around. It’s less to do with their content and more with the different structure compared to some of the more common website styles you see outside of social media as well as distinct from much social media.

    Like Hubzilla almost seems like a techie’s idea of social media right down to the menus listing system apps and users’ having file directories for, well, presumably sharing files? I’ve yet to find a Hubzilla instance with some more active use to see how it would all really pan out, but I have found at least one with some nicer looking css to it.

    I think one of my favorite parts of looking through Hubzilla instances is that you can see this interesting potential for it as a cross between MySpace and like some power users’ space for hosting odd web apps and files.

    As to Misskey, well, many of the instances I’ve seen just have this really lighthearted vibe to them thanks to the design using a lot of round edges and…Something else with the visuals gives a lot of the instances a softer feel. Some of it’s absolutely the custom emojis, but there’s just a lot of weird playfulness to the way it’s styled, something I don’t think I’ve really seen much in many social spaces online (which is kinda interesting now that I think of it).

  • smallerdemon@kbin.social
    1·
    1 year ago

    A very right-wing Mastadon server when I first started searching for anyone else on Mastadon in my state (US South East). Scary, scary place.

  • GolGolarion@pathfinder.social
    0·
    1 year ago

    I can’t find it now (found it, check comment below), but when I first learned about peertube, i found my way to this strange, almost otherworldly video. Everything was blurry and dark, and the sounds of tearing fabric were ever-present. I have no idea what it could have been, but it had this distinct feeling like I shouldn’t have been watching it. I think about it every now and again.

    • GolGolarion@pathfinder.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      Update, through some hardcore scouring, I did find it. You can watch it here. A friend I was talking to said it might been an AI-generated thing, which would make sense, but I’m not certain. Checking the profile, they’ve only uploaded this one video, and they seem to have a bandcamp with no real information about themselves or why they’ve made this, but they’ve got a few other audio-only tracks that are kind of similar, only much shorter.

      • GolGolarion@pathfinder.social
        1·
        1 year ago

        That would make sense, and that’s kind of what I have to think of it as, maybe as an ASMR thing? But it was a rather long video, and what I could see (not much) didn’t seem to be focused on anything that could be described as fabric, like the noise was coming from off-screen.

  • Mantis_Toboggan@lemmy.world
    0·
    1 year ago

    It’s just a matter of time til Dragons Fucking Cars comes around.

    I haven’t looked around. I don’t want to run into another Space Dicks, 50-50 or Watch People Die.

    • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.net
      1·
      1 year ago

      I thought space dicks was pretty funny until it went full on Nazi dog whistle sub.

      When I first found it, it was just memes using porn. I never saw any mutilation on there like I’m seeing some people saying. O.o

      It eventually became a racist cesspool though, which is what got it banned.

        • lemonh3ad@kbin.social
          11·
          1 year ago

          Maybe I remember that sub through rose tinted glasses but i dont remember it hating people for being fat. The negative traits being hated on were things that fit a stereotype that happens to exist among people who are more likely to be fat.

          Its probably good it doesn’t exist anymore, there were some really well written stories though, it was like the bad roommates sub.

  • Sev@feddit.uk
    0·
    1 year ago

    I turned off NSFW entirely after wondering what the most recent nsfw community in my feed was. I saw one ‘sissyboy chastity’ …yea time to turn off nsfw.

    Uh oh. Those NSFW communities are working fast lol

    • godless@latte.isnot.coffee
      0·
      1 year ago

      I’m blocking each and every one of them, and just wait for the day when any app comes with a filter by instance instead of by community. I don’t get the appeal with porn on social media when there are free websites entirely dedicated to it, in better quality, and with more frequent updates.

      • Aesthesiaphilia@kbin.social
        1·
        1 year ago

        Because it’s NOT better quality, it’s all spray tanned caked on makeup fake moan noise factory produced bullshit. Or it’s onlyfans.

        Forums and the like are the only place to find actual amateur content that people are posting because they enjoy it rather than as a job.

  • normalmighty@programming.dev
    0·
    1 year ago

    burggit.moe, nsfw instance. Went there because some of the stuff I’m into had been banned from lemmynsfw, but…yikes. They go a little too extreme into some areas for me aye.