>>56678585>no more retarded proshipping discourse>>56678616To springboard off of that and add more to this, that's another reason why personal websites and forums are superior.
The whole "pro vs antiship" discourse mainly got so bad because of social media algorithms farming for engagement. The pro- and anti- terms originated as prefixes to specific ships and/or kinks. But because everyone is now using the same site and at any time can be exposed to things that they are anti- for, the terms have devolved into a meaningless tribalistic war.
When someone keeps on blocking people who post their squicks, but the algorithm still throws it onto their feed, they start to get defensive and lash out. And when they lash out, even if it's to tell someone to kill themselves, the algorithm sees that as engagement and will show even more of their squicks to them. And the more engagement a post has, no matter how much if that is negative, the more likely the algorithm will boost it. "Don't like don't look" is dead on algorithm-driven sites.
However with forums and personal websites, that discourse is greatly diminished because you can truly choose what you want to look at. See a forum thread about a ship you don't like? Don't click. Enter a website that hosts porn that disgusts you to your very core? Hit backspace.
I know it's easy to see all the discourse and get annoyed at it all, but I truly do feel bad for the kiddos growing up in the modern web. As a former "anti" I sympathize with them because it's absolutely not fun to be constantly blasted with shota rape when you don't want to see that. I understand why these kids lash out at those who post that stuff instead of minding their own business. Antiship kiddos are being brought up on a mainstream internet that doesn't allow for easy curation. And because this is what they're raised on and grown up with, they don't know that alternatives exist.
