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

  • coldv@lemmy.world
    1492·
    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

  • Mantis_Toboggan@lemmy.world
    291·
    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.

        • lemonh3ad@kbin.social
          21·
          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.

      • Mantis_Toboggan@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 year ago

        Humbling; Absolutely!

        It also desensitized me and at the same time, made me super anxious driving on two-lane roads or seeing people speeding. So I had to just stop looking at it.

        • lemonh3ad@kbin.social
          1·
          1 year ago

          Thats it though, if everyone watched some of that when they start driving maybe they would be more careful. Probably good for some and bad for some.

          Like in the machinist world its good to see the videos and pictures of the accidents.

          • Mantis_Toboggan@lemmy.world
            1·
            1 year ago

            That is true. I think that sub is why I don’t really speed, nor act like a complete cockwad on the road.

            I don’t want to lose control and crash into a guardrail that empales half my face, with an eye popping out of its socket and slowly die in agonizing pain.

            Seatbelts is another thing I religiously use, after seeing that video of that Russian woman who was launched through a windshield, and rag-dolled like 50 meters in the air, before landing outside of the highway. This was like circa 2013.

  • Sev@feddit.uk
    161·
    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

  • cordlessmodem@kbin.social
    13·
    1 year ago

    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

  • normalmighty@programming.dev
    11·
    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.

  • smallerdemon@kbin.social
    9·
    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.

  • boredtortoise@lemm.ee
    4·
    1 year ago

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

  • ElectroVagrant@lemmy.world
    3·
    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).