[HN Gopher] Browsing the Eastern Side of the Personal Web ___________________________________________________________________ Browsing the Eastern Side of the Personal Web Author : PaulHoule Score : 20 points Date : 2023-12-05 17:37 UTC (1 days ago) (HTM) web link (www.bikobatanari.art) (TXT) w3m dump (www.bikobatanari.art) | CobaltFire wrote: | My wife runs a website like this on one of the Japanese somewhat | social media sites. I say somewhat because it doesn't look much | like what we think of as social media. | | It's fascinating because she can see who drops by to read her | stuff, and she has a significant number of followers, but it's | very passive. No comments, no likes, no interaction at all. The | only way people can show their support is by subscribing, and | even then that's only shown to the admin. | RicoElectrico wrote: | Now this should go without saying, but when browsing through | these search engines and the sites within them, please respect | the people running these sites. You're stepping on their part of | the world, not yours, and as such, you will find stuff that you | won't necessarily jibe with--or you'll encounter fringe content | that, to put it lightly, has a very niche audience; but despite | this, respect these people's personal spaces and browse at a | distance. I'm pretty sure Westerners already have an abysmal | reputation over there due to moral policing (a la Twitter/Tumblr) | those who are literally minding their own business--in a | completely different continent no less. So don't make things | worse for those who are already making an effort in disconnecting | from those places where people who would harass them are rampant. | | What? | shunyaekam wrote: | Yeah. Some examples of niche content would be interesting. | CobaltFire wrote: | What's legal and acceptable in Japan is rather different than | anywhere in the West. | | As one example, animated or drawn child pornography is | perfectly legal there. There have been multiple legal rulings | reinforcing that. Western audiences find that horrible, for the | most part. | | Actual pornography is censored in Japan however, and many of | the people I've talked to there find uncensored real | pornography to be far more offensive than drawn pornography. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2023-12-06 23:00 UTC)