Ravelry!
Ravelry is a social media site entirely about knitting and crochet. It’s a place for users to share patterns and creations and talk about projects they’re working on.
It has more than 1 million active monthly users and 10 million total users, making it one of the largest social media websites in the world. One of the two founders owners, who is also the lead developer is trans, and the website culture is absolutely lovely and very queer and trans friendly.
If you’re at all interested in yarn crafts I’d very strongly recommend you give it a try.
SomethingAwful got a lot less chuddier after Lowtax died (good riddance to that domestically violent repeat offender), and while it’s not exactly a leftist forum it’s lefter than it’s ever been before. It’s also a goldmine of obscure silliness, such as people tracking the ongoing multiple clown car crash pileup and spreading circus fire that is Star Citizen.
Bonus it was one of the original web sites and has decades of history extending into every facet of modern society. So that’s kinda wild. Memes might have gotten invented there. 4chan was and that might be the most important act of modern American history.
Forum Goons are probably some of the most influential non-state actors in the history of the internet. For decades anywhere you went on the internet there was a clique of Goons who got their before you and there was a good chance they were running some kind of cartel or scheme that defined the meta.
I thought this was 4chan before 4chan. Is this horseshoe theory striking again?
the rhizzone give me a “gen x hexbear” vibe
https://rhizzone.net/forum/topic/14117/
though i wouldn’t call them large, they are definitely obscure
I don’t know if these are obscure for online people (I guess most Americans IRL wouldn’t know them) but erowid.org (drugs) bluelight.org (drugs) fetlife.com (fetish)
Have you read r/datura yet? Or the erowid reports of datura? It’s just as crazy if not crazier
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