Not sure where to post this but the American prison system is pretty fucked so this comm will do. Cool/weird thread to read. Highlights:

youtube does look cool. i have used it a little but i get a lot of suggestions that i don't like, like right wing stuff and i dont know why.

my cousin told me to check out the reddit site but i didn't like it. he said this place might be better and i've been readind a little here and i like the conversation form here more than the reddit thing.

honestly though and many of you might not believe it but i am a happy person now. and after many years of not seeing a single tree i can enjoy sitting on my mom's porch and watching the birds. i like that a lot and it brings me peace.

    • booty [he/him]
      ·
      1 year ago

      i think the idea is just that you had to pay like 5 or 10 dollars to make an account at all, but they were very liberal with bans because they essentially saw it as like a small fine.

      • flan [they/them]
        ·
        1 year ago

        that might have been it. either way it was too rich for my blood at the time.

    • UnicodeHamSic [he/him]
      ·
      1 year ago

      One time 10$ fee. It kept the worst of the worst internet people out. Most of the time anyway.

    • AlkaliMarxist
      ·
      1 year ago

      I always forget the front page, I found it funny at the time but I have a feeling if I looked at it now I'd cringe till my face split in half.

      • flan [they/them]
        ·
        1 year ago

        it wasnt the fine layer cake of nihilistic meta irony that we have today, that’s for sure.

        • AlkaliMarxist
          ·
          1 year ago

          I mean it was a lot of slurs and other edgelord shit - it was the 2000's. I'll take the post-ironic nihilism over that at least.