The popular web, composed of corporate social media sites is a ghetto wasteland. I've gradually been deleting my accounts, or just letting them rot until I forget the password and can't log back in.

But I'd like to make a break more intentionally. I have outside hobbies of course, and those are going well, but I'm interested in what I could do for online entertainment.

Do you guys know and good forums, boards,chatrooms, wikis, academic sites, etc that are good and worth looking at? Too much of the indie web seems to be composed of go-nowhere neocities projects that get abandoned after 2 years use.

I already saw the bit about lurking Usenet in the other thread.(´ー`)

デッドボルド

Out of curiousity, would the attached image break Rule 8?

I think soyjaks are funny ( ´ω`)

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Nigga

https://www.heyuri.net/#news4

I read this in an article on Psychology Today:

"Today’s young people—a generation of "digital natives"—have been having less sex than age-peers in previous generations, and the impact of the internet and smartphones on courtship and sexual patterns cannot be ignored.

"First, people are so used to the internet’s instant gratification that ordinary conversation with ordinary people can seem tame. Young people may have less comfort with the ups and downs of face to face conversation. For some, dating simply doesn’t provide the kind of continuous guaranteed engagement of the internet and smartphones; almost nothing could.

"In this context, the sex that young people are having can be confusing in a new way. Many young people are almost panicking during the inevitable moments when actual sex becomes boring or ambiguous, or when the unexpected (or unwanted) happens. In therapy sessions, young people are asking me—in ways they previously did not—“How am I supposed to get excited and stay excited during sex without anything else going on?”"

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"Not only are teens having less sex than previous cohorts, they’re also masturbating less than teens of a generation ago. (This includes teens of all genders.) So, is online porn turning every young person into a masturbation junkie? Hardly. Rather, young people—who now often consume porn before they’ve had any partner sex—are comparing themselves to what they see. They don’t always realize they’re watching a fantasy, and they understandably respond by feeling inadequate, ignorant, and ashamed. That anxiety translates directly into lower arousal, lower enjoyment, and lower desire.

"As their lives become more mediated, young people who lack real-life sexual experience trivialize their own real-world senses, emotions, and needs—for example, for touching. As sex for young people becomes less and less about the five senses, and more about images, it also becomes less a vehicle for connection between them, and thus, connection becomes a weaker motivation for sex.

"Young people are also generally less curious about sex than young people used to be. While previous generations of young people felt that much of sexuality was mysterious, today's young adults understandably but erroneously feel they’ve seen it all via porn, and so they’re simply less curious and less motivated to investigate it.

The image on the BANNED page is broken. It's supposed to be an image URL.

I dropped my fork on some water on the ground at the restaurant. Instead of asking for a new one, I scrubbed the rancid stuff off and switched it with one of the forks on the table next to me. The person that sat there ate with the dirty fork I dropped. I'm not sorry.

ｺﾅｶｯﾀ...

Two men are knocking back beers in a bar on the ninetieth floor of the Empire State building.
“You know, there’s a slipstream around the seventieth floor,” says one, opening a window, “and if you jump out here, it’ll suck you back in at the fiftieth floor.”

“Ah, c’mon,” says the second, more than a little drunk.
“No, really” says the first. “I’ll show you.” So he jumps out the window, comes in through a fiftieth-floor window, takes the elevator up, and appears triumphantly back in the bar.
“Hey, I’m going to try that,” says the second guy. He jumps out the window, falls ninety floors, and is killed instantly.
“Hey,” says the bartender, looking hard at the first man, “you can be a real bastard when you’re drunk, Superman.

なんで「外人」より「外国人」があるの？ポリコレのか・・・。

ｷﾀ━━━(ﾟ∀ﾟ)━━━!!

スカートめくり！！！

Change /b/'s title to Random.

From an article I read:
"That "secure" peer-to-peer (“P2P”) network isn't really secure at all. It's complicated, but the folks managing your ISP aren't dumb. Unless you’re an IT guru who knows how to "hide" on the web, your ISP will eventually figure out what you’re doing. They will know you are stealing copyrighted media (songs, TV shows, movies, software, etc.) and move to halt your actions. Then the folks from whom you stole will come to collect.

"First, you'll get a cease and desist notice with a strongly worded legal warning. The letter will have documentation of your IP address and its illegal activity. It will then state the offense, namely, copyright infringement. It will warn you that you are in danger of committing an offense that can result in hefty fines or jail time or both.

"Then, with your IP address flagged, they will turn your name over to entertainment industry lawyers to pursue legal action against you. If you haven’t done enough to fix the situation, they will either sue you directly for compensation and damages, or turn your name over to the federal authorities (they don't play at the state level), or both."

^ Lolwut? I've never encountered this, or even heard of anyone getting caught like this. Is it just scare-mongering? Is it just cause I don't live in America? Maybe. The cops here couldn't tell a tripcode from a tree. And our copyright law isn't so iron-fisted. Lol.

Or do I just need to use the internet less? I feel like there's way too many people who know about chris-chan these days...

It's been a good minute since I last shared something. Sharing one of my favorite classic loli h-manga today.

Hi, roeddwn i eisiau gwybod eich pris.

Considering we have both /b/ and /sw/ I think that having lounge is just redundant. Many threads that are made on /lounge/ get swept under the rug because not as many people go on there and the random ASCII threads can just go on /sw/