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  • About 10 years ago there was an ASL search greasemonkey script as a browser extention.

    Funny thing about that is, it was made by a gay guy who disabled the ability to search for women. And when people asked him about it, he said some things that I will not repeat here, but just know it was like if toxic masculenity also took on the form of abusive and hateful commentary.

    Within a week somebody released an alternate version of that script with modified code that let you search for anyone. And as Fetlife is a very all inclusive site, the revised script also had options for numerous variations of trans. Basically every gender identity you can think of was included in the updated script.

    Fetlife couldn’t control use of the script, but they could detect it. Which they then banned users for using it. Since that time the script no longer works. Fetlife did something behind the scenes to disable it.



  • It reminds me of Fetlife.

    If you’ve never heard of Fetlife, it’s a fetish social network. At least that’s what it markets itself as. In reality, everyone on fetlife knows what it is.

    It’s a fetish dating site. And also a fetish hookup site.

    But the thing is, lets say I’m a male between the ages of 18 and 65. And I want to find a woman, in my city, who is single, and into monogamy…and also a whole list of fucked up fetishes. Don’t worry, these women would ALSO list these fetishes as interests so it’s consentual.

    As a fetlife user you can’t do that. You can’t search by gender. You can’t filter by age. You CAN see who’s available by city, but you literally get EVERYBODY in that city. It’s more like getting a whole phone book, rather than a filtered search list.

    So it just ends up being way harder to use than it should be. They claim it’s to “protect women”, but that’s bullshit. Women are not these defenseless creatures who need you to break your whole search system to shield them from the world. Also, there’s an easy fix for that. You add search opt out in your own personal settings. They already have the ability to limit who can message you, it would not be hard to add a checkbox that says “remove my profile from search”.

    I’d be good with that. I just want to search women in my area, who share my interests, are single and monogamous, and want to be messaged. The system they have makes that SUUUUUUPER hard.



  • I can remember Hot or Not being before Friendster. I don’t know when it started, but I found it around 2000.

    For anyone unaware, the idea was simple. Go to the website, and you’d be presented with a random picture. Could be male, could be female. You could adjust these settings to be more specific as to which pictures you’d get.

    But basically, you’d see a picture. Then you vote. Hot? Or not? And after you vote, you can see another picture to vote on, as well as the score from the previous voted on picture.

    That’s it. Thats the whole thing. No messaging. No interacting. Nothing. Just you having an account that you upload a single picture to. Then other people can randomly get the chance to vote on you, and you can also check your own score. The ONLY other thing you could do is share your URL with friends. Usually through AIM or YIM or ICQ or MSN Messanger.

    I really think that concept was ahead of its time. I think it would have worked really well as an app in 2016.






  • Well now see, now I’m at a cross roads. On the one hand, fuck privacy violations.

    On the other hand, fuck drunk drivers.

    I guess in the end, my logic is that this will barely be used to detect drunk drivers, and FULLY used to track you in real time.

    So lets all fuck over their technology by making nothing but right turns for 8 hours. Just a massive small circle. For 8 hours, every day.

    Then it will be assumed their tracking is broken, and they’ll waste time figuring out whats broken.

    If we all do this, every day, in electric vehicles powered by solar chargers, then we’ll save the world!


  • No no. I can totally believe this happened. I’ve sent women similiar messages when I was younger.

    See, it doesn’t matter how much you like a woman, or how funny you are, or how respectful you are, or how big your dick is.

    What matters most is that you own it. If you fall on your face, own it. You MEANT to do that. Doesn’t bother you. In fact, do it again. Harder. Break your nose. Start bleeding. Then own it again. That’s what matters. Confidence. The illusion that you know what you’re doing at all times, are comfortable in your own skin.

    Oh, and also be tall. That’s the most important thing.