No one in Europe made an Omegle like website since 2009?

It's the result of online culture rewarding snarky hot takes with increased ad revenue

And it's infected the whole web so that even free blogs use the same voice

If I could unmake the Internet I would in a second, without hesitation.

The lack of local community as everyone moves to a global gray sameness is the grossest thing to happen to this world.

Using it as a crutch to fool yourself into what you think is normal is not healthy and it's not a solution to real problems.

Omegle disappearing is neither surprising nor sad, and it's nothing personal against them specifically.

I expect to get down voted to oblivion because no one likes to hear harsh truths, but the internet has been a net negative for us all

Except for potentially most of the population, the internet provided a more vibrant, welcoming, supportive and rich community than their local community ever could. The "gray sameness" is a recent phenomena and commanded by legal and state abuse, that a lot of the commenters above here lament about.

I would say that the online community has always been superficial

It feels good but you are still alone

It's never been a good thing, it's been a time sync and it's why birth rates are down, depression is up, loneliness is rampant, and everyone is addicted to narcissism machines

I’m not sure if I’d call the internet itself a net negative. Somewhere around the time it was incepted it was fine. Exchanging emails and whatnot.

But what it has become now… I dunno, I regularly have calls with my family on the other side of the world. That’s definitely a positive. Everything attendant to the internet I do not like. The way it’s become nearly a requirement of life.

But would you have moved so far away from your family if you couldn’t have kept in touch with them over the Internet?

Probably, yeah. Phone calls would have sufficed. Video adds something, but sending regular letters and pictures would have been fun in a completely different way.

To OPs point, everything you said is why criminals use it too

He's not wrong

I simulate backward time travel all the time

It's called my imagination...

Yah but have you set up a set of statically significant entangled bosons in a Hau array and then coupled those to your cerebral cortex to be able to meaningfully act upon the knowledge gained by said imagination?…

I mean, not lately

Anyone can do that in their imagination

Yep. They're called drugs.

I simulate backward time travel simply by putting the objects around me back into the state they were in some time ago.

Wait I thought only I could read the secret

yes, HN hides secrets automatically

******* is my password, but you can't see it. Type your password back, and I won't be able to see it. Try it!

I'm not sure it's working the way you described:

hunter2

It’s working. I really can’t see it. All I see is ****

Maybe you are getting tricked to give out your password...

tr!pt0ph@n3

Gone in our minds but forever in our hearts <3

Quiet cities. Clean air.

Rome was the global superpower all the way until they weren't

Edit: However, I will concede that I think nuclear annihilation is more likely. So in that case you would be correct by accident

Men is shorthand for men and women

Hi, in this case, the title is referencing a quote and internet meme and is just referring to men. However it's quite problematic here IMO as it presents a cyclical view of history and masculinity that is both simplistic and incorrect.

Firstly, it promotes toxic masculinity by implying that men are either "weak" or "strong," with the former being undesirable. This feeds into harmful stereotypes that equate strength with aggression, dominance, and lack of emotional expression while devaluing attributes like empathy, emotional intelligence, and vulnerability. It also suggests that war and conflict is a necessary component for the development of "acceptable" masculinity. This dichotomy of "weak" and "strong" men reinforces an outdated and harmful ideal of masculinity and promotes a culture that shames men, among other things, for expressing emotions.

You state your opinion as if it were a universal truth. It's fine if you believe that, but many (most?) still value traditional masculinity.

Maybe 1000 years ago, when "man" really just meant person and there was a different word for males in particular. Nowadays, to refer to people as "man" it just sounds archaic and vaguely patriarchal, but people do it anyway because sounding slightly archaic can give your words more power.