What is the weirdest area of the Fediverse you have found yourself in so far?

There is a write up somewhere about this but I can't find it right now...

There is a mastodon instance that bans the letter "e" https://oulipo.social/ it's basically a writing exercise and challenge.

In response, https://dolphin.town/ is born. Where you can only use the letter "e", even usernames.

Edit: found the write up! It even contains a brief interaction between users from both instances! https://interconnected.org/home/2022/07/12/folktale

This is what the internet is for.
How adorable and weird. This is what I love most about the internet!
that interaction is wonderful lmfao
This has given me a case of the late night giggles.

It's just a matter of time til Dragons Fucking Cars comes around.

I haven't looked around. I don't want to run into another Space Dicks, 50-50 or Watch People Die.

I miss watchpeopledie, it was humbling.
- I miss FatPeopleHate.
- Humbling; Absolutely!
  
  It also desensitized me and at the same time, made me super anxious driving on two-lane roads or seeing people speeding. So I had to just stop looking at it.
Hello. Would you mind explaining 'Dragon's Fucking Cars' and Space Dicks? I dare not even incognito mode google them...
- Space Dicks was a sub where men would post photos of their dicks. These were no ordinary dicks though, they were heavily altered. Like a dick flayed open like a split hotdog, crazy piercings, implants... it was just not a pleasant sub to stumble upon.
- DragonsFuckingCars is literally crude drawings, illustrations, animations, and 3D renders of dragons having literal intercourse with cars.
  
  Spacedicks. I don't even know if that sub still exists. I'm not even searching if it is.
  
  But, it was like really graphic, NSFL gore and weird Porn on there. I remember one was the aftermath of a kid in Brazil that kicked a bus tire and it blew off his leg and he was just agonizing on the floor, with bone and flesh dangling from whatever was left of his shin. And that was one of the "mild" ones.
I thought space dicks was pretty funny until it went full on Nazi dog whistle sub.

When I first found it, it was just memes using porn. I never saw any mutilation on there like I'm seeing some people saying. O.o

It eventually became a racist cesspool though, which is what got it banned.

Haven't actually seen a lot of weird stuff yet, let's bring on the weird stuff

The Fediverse: either leave now or stay and get weird! lol
- I've been down the depths of the weirdest parts of the fediverse, and as someone who was on the internet in the 90s: it's tame af. Just like the whole internet nowadays.
  
  Just for some context, uncensored pictures of decapitated children used to show up on the front page of reddit and that wasn't even "the weird part" of the internet.
- Lemmy catchphrase:
  
  “Let’s get weird!”
I'll start with a mild one: https://youtu.be/6QFwo57WKwg
- Booooo, it's age restricted and I never managed to age-verify my youtube account.
- thanks for sharing this, music was a vibe, animation was bizarre but i liked it
- Oh man that's a classic
- The fuck did i just watch.
- Weird video but that song was a banger. Has an M83/Gunship sound to it. Love it!

I've ran into some furry stuff while browsing the federated timeline.

Nothing that an update to my filters and an eye scrubbing didn't solve.

...with steel wool. (Actually there are much worse things to unsee)
- Bring back SpaceDicks!
Furries hold up the tech industry and open source community, it's just how it is 🤷‍♀️

burggit.moe, nsfw instance. Went there because some of the stuff I'm into had been banned from lemmynsfw, but...yikes. They go a little too extreme into some areas for me aye.

Jfc what are you into that's banned on the official nsfw?? lol

Not gonna lie I kinda take a peek at that instance...
- ...I reserve the right to remain silent lol
- the official nsfw??
  
  lemmynsfw.com is NOT the official in any way. It's got questionable content that got them defederated with lemmy.ml , which is run by the devs that coded Lemmy.
Agree, and they've allegedly banned some of their most extreme communities.

It's now the officially only instance mine has defederated from. Disgusting creeps.
I had the exact experience with the same instance.

~~I can't find it now~~ (found it, check comment below), but when I first learned about peertube, i found my way to this strange, almost otherworldly video. Everything was blurry and dark, and the sounds of tearing fabric were ever-present. I have no idea what it could have been, but it had this distinct feeling like I shouldn't have been watching it. I think about it every now and again.

Update, through some hardcore scouring, I did find it. You can watch it here. A friend I was talking to said it might been an AI-generated thing, which would make sense, but I'm not certain. Checking the profile, they've only uploaded this one video, and they seem to have a bandcamp with no real information about themselves or why they've made this, but they've got a few other audio-only tracks that are kind of similar, only much shorter.
- Nice. PeerTube instances have gotta be among the stranger spaces of the fediverse if only 'cause they focus on video. It's not as strange but I stumbled into finding a vtuber covering tech/Linux stuff with what I think was also some text to speech software for the narration, and the TTS wasn't too bad either (if that's what it was).
  
  Edit:
  Huh, what's even more interesting about that video is the split-screen aspect of it almost makes it seem like you might view it in VR or something, but the visuals...Don't really make much sense for that.
Maybe it was a blurry video of someone (gasp) tearing fabric.
- That would make sense, and that's kind of what I have to think of it as, maybe as an ASMR thing? But it was a rather long video, and what I could see (not much) didn't seem to be focused on anything that could be described as fabric, like the noise was coming from off-screen.

I turned off NSFW entirely after wondering what the most recent nsfw community in my feed was. I saw one 'sissyboy chastity' ....yea time to turn off nsfw.

Uh oh. Those NSFW communities are working fast lol

I'm blocking each and every one of them, and just wait for the day when any app comes with a filter by instance instead of by community. I don't get the appeal with porn on social media when there are free websites entirely dedicated to it, in better quality, and with more frequent updates.
- Because it's NOT better quality, it's all spray tanned caked on makeup fake moan noise factory produced bullshit. Or it's onlyfans.
  
  Forums and the like are the only place to find actual amateur content that people are posting because they enjoy it rather than as a job.
- Seriously, I'm so sick of all the porn communities showing up in my feed. I block them and more keep popping up on my feed. It's like a game of whac a mole, I don't want to see your butt hole Lisa.
- Connect can do this
- You can block entire instances on kbin.
And they will keep popping up time and time again if we don't ask the admins to ban them. Write a message to https://lemmy.world/u/lwadmin and explain your viewpoint in a couple of words.

This thread right here, full of people discovering people different from them put things on the Internet and some of them are weird or gross

Hi you called

A very right-wing Mastadon server when I first started searching for anyone else on Mastadon in my state (US South East). Scary, scary place.

Ah, /c/Florida on exploding-heads? Me too. Fuck em

Is there a WTF yet? Or a fifty/fifty?

Probably that one com where that guy hates his wife.

The political scene has some confused reactionaries who call everyone else a reactionary. Maybe not weird but very prominent

Since a lot of these replies veer into the not safe for life, gross, or sexual, I think I'm just gonna mention the mundanely "weird" few Hubzilla or Misskey instances I've stumbled around. It's less to do with their content and more with the different structure compared to some of the more common website styles you see outside of social media as well as distinct from much social media.

Like Hubzilla almost seems like a techie's idea of social media right down to the menus listing system apps and users' having file directories for, well, presumably sharing files? I've yet to find a Hubzilla instance with some more active use to see how it would all really pan out, but I have found at least one with some nicer looking css to it.

I think one of my favorite parts of looking through Hubzilla instances is that you can see this interesting potential for it as a cross between MySpace and like some power users' space for hosting odd web apps and files.

As to Misskey, well, many of the instances I've seen just have this really lighthearted vibe to them thanks to the design using a lot of round edges and...Something else with the visuals gives a lot of the instances a softer feel. Some of it's absolutely the custom emojis, but there's just a lot of weird playfulness to the way it's styled, something I don't think I've really seen much in many social spaces online (which is kinda interesting now that I think of it).

I've browsed the all list for LemmyNSFW. The things I've seen would drive lesser men insane.

I also checked out Matrix after first seeing it mentioned in the profile page, and Jesus Christ there are a lot of CP channels.