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packbat ([personal profile] packbat) wrote2023-12-12 10:36 pm
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unexpectedly good riddance

So apparently Omegle only just died this year.

We don't know the full story, but it seems to have involved predators using the platform to get access to children, so, that's awful. We found out because we stumbled over our 2010 post about doing a Turing test in Omegle and went and followed the link, but apparently there's been a decade of memes on Tumblr about Omegle being a haven for predators and it took a lawsuit by one of the victims to bring it down.

So, that sure is a thing.

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[personal profile] the_gneech 2023-12-13 12:01 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm guessing that was a social media site? (I am so very out of the loop...)
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[personal profile] packbat 2023-12-13 01:59 pm (UTC)(link)
The premise was that you would be randomly paired with a total stranger to have a spontaneous one-on-one chatroom conversation, neither of you knowing who the other was.

It was fun at first, but you can kind of see how this could go wrong, unfortunately.
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[personal profile] the_gneech 2023-12-13 03:33 pm (UTC)(link)

Yeah, that has so much abusability built right into the concept.  


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On Dec 13, 2023, at 8:59 AM, packbat - DW Comment <dw_null@dreamwidth.org> wrote:


packbat: A headshot of an anthro bat-eared fox - large ears, tan fur, brown dreadlocks - with a shiny textured face visor curving down from zir forehead to a rounded snout. The visor is mostly black, but has large orange-brown ovals on its surface representing zir eyes. (batfox visor) packbat replied to a comment you left in a Dreamwidth entry "unexpectedly good riddance". The comment they replied to was:

I'm guessing that was a social media site? (I am so very out of the loop...)

The reply was:

The premise was that you would be randomly paired with a total stranger to have a spontaneous one-on-one chatroom conversation, neither of you knowing who the other was.

It was fun at first, but you can kind of see how this could go wrong, unfortunately.


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