#it’s not even banned

[beomiracles]

guys what did i say.

[stimmingandstruggling]

ok i need people who are happy about the tiktok ban to understand your opinion should actually have nothing to do with the fact that it’s tiktok. like you can hate tiktok. but supporting the ban is supporting censorship, full stop.

like, i fucking hate twitter. it’s a hellhole. would i celebrate if it went bankrupt and shutdown? probably! would i celebrate if the GOVERNMENT BANNED IT? ABSOLUTELY FUCKING NOT. because the government SHOULD NOT be making decisions about how and what people are allowed to talk about on the internet. ever.

“i don’t like the precedent but im happy if it’s just tiktok” stfu and think for a second if they only ban tiktok and nothing else ever that’s still censorship

[thunderlina]

In the wake of the TikTok ban and revival as a mouthpiece for fascist propaganda, as well as the downfall of Twitter and Facebook/Facebook-owned platforms to the same evils, I think now is a better time than ever to say LEARN HTML!!! FREE YOURSELVES FROM THE SHACKLES OF MAJOR SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS AND EMBRACE THE INDIE WEB!!!

You can host a website on Neocities for free as long as it's under 1GB (which is a LOT more than it sounds like let me tell you) but if that's not enough you can get 50GB of space (and a variety of other perks) for only $5 a month.

And if you can't/don't want to pay for the extra space, sites like File Garden and Catbox let you host files for free that you can easily link into NeoCities pages (I do this to host videos on mine!) (It also lets you share files NeoCities wouldn't let you upload for free anyways, this is how I upload the .zip files for my 3DS themes on my site.)

Don't know how to write HTML/CSS? No problem. W3schools is an invaluable resource with free lessons on HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, and a whole slew of other programming languages, both for web development and otherwise.

Want a more traditional social media experience? SpaceHey is a platform that mimics the experience of 2000s MySpace

Struggling to find independent web pages that cater to your interests via major search engines? I've got you covered. Marginalia and Wiby are search engines that specifically prioritize non-commercial content. Marginalia also has filters that let you search for more specific categories of website, like wikis, blogs, academia, forums, and vintage sites.

Maybe you wanna log off the modern internet landscape altogether and step back into the pre-social media web altogether, well, Protoweb lets you do just that. It's a proxy service for older browsers (or really just any browser that supports HTTP, but that's mostly old browsers now anyways) that lets you visit restored snapshots of vintage websites.

Protoweb has a lot of Geocities content archived, but if you're interested in that you can find even more old Geocities sites over on the Geocities Gallery

And really this is just general tip-of-the-iceberg stuff. If you dig a little deeper you can find loads more interesting stuff out there. The internet doesn't have to be a miserable place full of nothing but doomposting and targeted ads. The first step to making it less miserable is for YOU, yes YOU, to quit spending all your time on it looking at the handful of miserable websites big tech wants you to spend all your time on.

[teaboot]

When I was a kid, I regularly lost reading privileges for "having an attitude" and "acting out".

It wasn't as simple as being told not to read during other activities- one of the first times it happened, I remember being six years old, watching my stepfather pull fistfuls of books off my bookshelf and throw them to the floor in a heaping mess while I cried and asked him to stop.

It was weird. Every other adult I knew described me as exceptionally well-behaved, but at home, it was the opposite, and it was blamed on "learning bad habits from that shit you're reading".

Because I couldn't read at home, I spent all my free time at school in the library, reading with my friends.

When I grew up and moved away, I realized that my family life was toxic and abusive, and the "attitudes" I was being punished for were standing up for myself, standing up for my younger siblings, and resisting actual, real-life psychological abuse. Because I'd learned from what I'd read that my family wasn't normal, not like my parents said it was, and in my stories, the heroes were the people who spoke out when it was hard to.

It is insane to me that there are students right now who can't access books. It is insane that books are being outlawed. It is perverse that we are stealing away an entire generation's ability to contextualize their lives, to learn about the world around them, to develop critical thinking skills and express themselves and feel connected to the world or escape from it, whatever and whenever and however they need.

That is not how you raise a compassionate, thoughtful, powerful society.

That's how you process cattle.

It's fucking disgusting.

[zoe-oneesama]

We did it, everyone. We chased her out of Paris.

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[the-king-of-lemons]

wait putting everything on hold for one second.

connor????

[mikeluciraphgabe]

Opened TikTok, saw the message, closed TikTok, opened TikTok again so I could react with people about, crumbled in realization that we are unable to group together anymore

[charlie-artlie]

I think the death weirdos should hang out

[lylahammar]

I feel like one of the clearest indicators that capitalism doesn’t fucking serve people is LED headlights. Because LED headlights endanger millions of lives every single night, I have never met a single person who doesn’t HATE them and take any opportunity to complain about them, and yet we have made zero progress in banning them in 20 years (literally it’s been 20 years this year) because they’re cheaper for car manufacturers

[aikya-kat-44]

Thinking about how Hitler rose to power by using youth clubs to target the youth

Thinking about Donald Trump playing the hero for millions of young people by bringing back tiktok, despite being the original person to ban it

We really do have a fascist president of America in the world right now.

What a sorry state of affairs

[shotapiss]

"proship" being seen as like. A sexual thing is so frustrating. Like yeah im the freak problematic shotacon incest enjoyer in your DNI but I also just don't fucking care what people do with fiction. Like I am capable of having a normal conversation that isn't about whatever weird shit I'm into. I am also capable of respecting boundaries and not talking about things that I was explicitly told to not talk about. It's pretty easy! It's called not being a piece of shit. Why can't I play with you guys just because I think that fictional characters don't have rights and that thought crimes don't exist.

[starscream-is-my-wife]

Sometimes a day makes you want a Starscream to bite and squeeze

[saltedbiscuiit]

game.

[galacticghoste]

Its already a running joke Silhouette is basically just copy paste of her father

I was planing to just redraw the meme butttt I got this old audio saved so might as well use it

it fits Amy better anyways

I got motivated to finish this animation after seeing the redraws of that one meme it's sounds oddly similar XD

[jez-bez]

Phukan. Scared of me now? Why should I be scared? This is no big deal.

[mouselikething]

"omg ao3 should ban all the gross stuff like underage smut fics and incest!!" Do you remember the Citrus Scale. do you. do you remember what happened the last time a fanfic site tried to ban stuff.