What was reductive about my description? I qualified my experience with the good and bad. My only real complaint was the lack of moderation. Lemmy has its issues, sure, but it has community driven moderation whereas Omegle had essentially zero. Not to mention the accessibility and notoriety of Omegle far exceeded Lemmy
I enjoyed having Omegle exist, and I'm happy there's space for something else to take its place
Omegle has always been primarily men masturbating to (for?) random people on the Internet. It was kind of a cesspool from the beginning so you didn't miss much
Anecdote for the road: I was in my early teens when Omegle was in its heyday. Even then it was a minefield of done people that wanted to roulette chat and men masturbating to primarily children my age. I met a lot of cool people to talk to and it was my first real personal/video interaction with people over the Internet
When I was about 13 I started getting on Omegle to have men masturbate to me and tell me I was pretty. They would always ask how old I was or that I looked young. Looking back I can see that as harmful behavior, but I was old enough to have a semblance of control to never share any identifiable information nor show my face. Basically, Omegle was my homosexual "awakening" as I hadn't had those experiences up to that point
If a similar platform with maybe AI moderation came along I could get behind it. While I don't view my experience as personally damaging, I can see the avenue for grooming and exploitation and I'm glad they finally shuttered
Non-profit, open source and extremely privacy consious. You'll need a rooted Pixel device and you can download/learn about the ROM here: https://grapheneos.org/
I liked GrapheneOS but I didn't like the pixel hardware personally
As a disclaimer, I'm someone relatively new to usenet
Usenet has provided a much more consistent option for media quality for my server. Most titles in the last 20-25 years have around ten distributions ranging from 720p to 4k. The biggest difference are downloads. It's no contest: better bandwidth with much much more consistent speeds. You won't stumble on something with one seeder on a 300kbps connection. There's no requirement to seed content back, although I recognize that if you're using private torrent trackers this is likely the case for you already
Overall I enjoy how much better usenet is to gather media from when it comes to the amount of time from request -> server availability
This is the first time I've felt like my views of religion and atheism have been reflected accurately on an "atheist" forum. Usually it's heavy handed "religious people bad" anecdotes or terrible memes made by 14-year-olds
What was reductive about my description? I qualified my experience with the good and bad. My only real complaint was the lack of moderation. Lemmy has its issues, sure, but it has community driven moderation whereas Omegle had essentially zero. Not to mention the accessibility and notoriety of Omegle far exceeded Lemmy
I enjoyed having Omegle exist, and I'm happy there's space for something else to take its place