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

  • coldv@lemmy.world
    1692·
    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

  • chrizbie@lemmy.nz
    40·
    1 year ago

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

  • Mantis_Toboggan@lemmy.world
    391·
    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.

    • sadbehr@lemmy.nz
      4·
      1 year ago

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

      • Nagoyodin@lemmy.world
        8·
        1 year ago

        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.

      • Mantis_Toboggan@lemmy.world
        6·
        1 year ago

        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.

        • sadbehr@lemmy.nz
          2·
          1 year ago

          Well I’m going to take your word for it and not look them up either. Thanks for the info.

    • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.net
      4·
      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.

  • mim@lemmy.sdf.org
    341·
    1 year ago

    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.

  • Sev
    201·
    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
      163·
      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
        111·
        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.

      • StaticElectricity@lemmy.world
        61·
        1 year ago

        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.

        • PopcornChickn@lemmy.worldEnglish
          41·
          1 year ago

          But maybe Lisa has a nice butthole she wanted to share.

          On a more serious note, I too dislike porn randomly popping up when I don’t expect it.

  • normalmighty@programming.dev
    18·
    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.

  • GolGolarion@pathfinder.social
    171·
    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
      5·
      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.

      • Elle@lemmy.world
        2·
        1 year ago

        Nice. PeerTube instances have gotta be among the stranger spaces of the fediverse if only 'cause they focus on video. It’s not as strange but I stumbled into finding a vtuber covering tech/Linux stuff with what I think was also some text to speech software for the narration, and the TTS wasn’t too bad either (if that’s what it was).

        Edit:
        Huh, what’s even more interesting about that video is the split-screen aspect of it almost makes it seem like you might view it in VR or something, but the visuals…Don’t really make much sense for that.

      • GolGolarion@pathfinder.social
        4·
        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.

  • cordlessmodem@kbin.social
    15·
    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

  • smallerdemon@kbin.social
    10·
    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
    5·
    1 year ago

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

  • Elle@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).