i can’t stand megathreads – no one reads these! no one wants their posts banished there!

  • mamaMiata
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    212 years ago

    This may be an unpopular option since I’ve already seen it across lemmy, but the ____porn communities. I’d like to browse pictures of nice landscapes or exotic cars without worry about someone around me noticing “PORN” on my screen.

    At this point it seems very old internet, something that made sense when those communities were established, but now is unnecessary gratuitous and not socially acceptable.

    • DrMango
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      42 years ago

      I saw a post about a community created here called “pixel passport” which I thought was a hell of a lot better that “earth porn.”

        • @Asraelite@lemmy.ml
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          22 years ago

          Voat, when it was still around, had this same discussion and settled on using _Pix for everything.

          • @systemglitch@lemmy.world
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            11 year ago

            What a wild site that was, some real loons were on it, but I did appreciate the fact it wasn’t so overly moderated. At the end though it just felt like a sanctuary of hate that had driven out most of the sane people.

        • @TitanLaGrange@lemmy.world
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          2 years ago

          Indeed. I like ‘Earthporn’ too, but I think it should be all nature pictures that look like genitalia and suchlike. Rocks or trees that look like penises for example.

    • @Skiv@lemmy.world
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      12 years ago

      Damn, I had forgotten how obnoxious that was on Reddit. Blocked all of those years ago because it was just unnecessary and a gross way to qualify otherwise unremarkable photos.

      • @Inaminate_Carbon_Rod@lemmy.world
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        5 days ago

        It just seems so dated.

        It reeks of “this website was funny and relevent in 2009!”

        The problem with the way their site works is that those names are stuck in place now.

      • z500
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        12 years ago

        It never bothered me per se, but it’s definitely awkward to come across some chapter of human suffering on r/HistoryPorn.