[HN Gopher] Browsing the Eastern Side of the Personal Web
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       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.
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       | 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.
        
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