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[–] coldv 167 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago

This is what the internet is for.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

How adorable and weird. This is what I love most about the internet!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

that interaction is wonderful lmfao

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Haven't actually seen a lot of weird stuff yet, let's bring on the weird stuff

[–] beefbaby182 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The Fediverse: either leave now or stay and get weird! lol

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

I've been down the depths of the weirdest parts of the fediverse, and as someone who was on the internet in the 90s: it's tame af. Just like the whole internet nowadays.

Just for some context, uncensored pictures of decapitated children used to show up on the front page of reddit and that wasn't even "the weird part" of the internet.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lemmy catchphrase:

“Let’s get weird!”

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

"Lemmy get weird" is right there though!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (6 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Booooo, it's age restricted and I never managed to age-verify my youtube account.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

You can watch it on Invidious (which is an open source front end for youtube):

https://invidious.slipfox.xyz/watch?v=6QFwo57WKwg

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[–] Mantis_Toboggan 38 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I miss watchpeopledie, it was humbling.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Hello. Would you mind explaining 'Dragon's Fucking Cars' and Space Dicks? I dare not even incognito mode google them...

[–] Nagoyodin 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Space Dicks was a sub where men would post photos of their dicks. These were no ordinary dicks though, they were heavily altered. Like a dick flayed open like a split hotdog, crazy piercings, implants... it was just not a pleasant sub to stumble upon.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks. Sounds absolutely fantastic.

[–] orientalsniper 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

spacedicks was a NSFL sub, it had extreme gore and death.

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[–] Mantis_Toboggan 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

DragonsFuckingCars is literally crude drawings, illustrations, animations, and 3D renders of dragons having literal intercourse with cars.

Spacedicks. I don't even know if that sub still exists. I'm not even searching if it is.

But, there was like really graphic, NSFL gore and weird Porn on there. I remember one was the aftermath of a teen in Brazil that kicked a bus tire and it blew off his leg and he was just agonizing on the floor, with bone and flesh dangling from whatever was left of his shin. And that was one of the "mild" ones.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 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.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I've ran into some furry stuff on Mastodon while browsing the federated timeline.

Nothing that an update to my filters and an eye scrubbing didn't solve.

[–] PlutoniumAcid 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

...with steel wool. (Actually there are much worse things to unsee)

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (6 children)
[–] beefbaby182 5 points 1 year ago

Oh dear god no. I forgot about that sub.

[–] ji88aja88a 4 points 1 year ago

Lol..I was.talkingnabout spacedcks the other day.. my audience couldn't believe I had so much to say about it 🤣

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[–] Thrawne 4 points 1 year ago

Wow, that took me back!

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (6 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] StaticElectricity 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Seriously, I'm so sick of all the porn communities showing up in my feed. I block them and more keep popping up on my feed. It's like a game of whac a mole, I don't want to see your butt hole Lisa.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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.

[–] beefbaby182 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Jfc what are you into that's banned on the official nsfw?? lol

Not gonna lie I kinda take a peek at that instance...

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

...I reserve the right to remain silent lol

[–] alberta 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

the official nsfw??

lemmynsfw.com is NOT the official in any way. It's got questionable content that got them defederated with lemmy.ml , which is run by the devs that coded Lemmy.

[–] beefbaby182 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So, uhh, what is the official one? Just asking for research purposes...

[–] alberta 22 points 1 year ago

In the fediverse, there is no official anything. Besides lemmynsfw.com, the only other one I know of is pornlemmy.com.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Agree, and they've allegedly banned some of their most extreme communities.

It's now the officially only instance mine has defederated from. Disgusting creeps.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I had the exact experience with the same instance.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

~~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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This thread right here, full of people discovering people different from them put things on the Internet and some of them are weird or gross

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Ah, /c/Florida on exploding-heads? Me too. Fuck em

[–] ji88aja88a 10 points 1 year ago

Is there a WTF yet? Or a fifty/fifty?

[–] FartsWithAnAccent 6 points 1 year ago

Probably that one com where that guy hates his wife.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

The political scene has some confused reactionaries who call everyone else a reactionary. Maybe not weird but very prominent

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