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Omegle has officially shut down (www.omegle.com)
submitted 1 year ago by jacaw@sh.itjust.works to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] figaro@lemdro.id 70 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Dang that's actually really sad. Omegle, for all its faults, was sort of like the weird alleyway that you could go to and know that you'd have some kind of interesting experience.

I'm sad to see it gone.

[–] i_am_hiding@aussie.zone 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

And one of the last major holdouts from web 1.0 :(

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 1 year ago

What? That's very much 2.0

[–] Aatube@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

How is an online chat not user-generated content?