#in one or another direction. Or most commonly never achieved a sufficient userbase to become relevant at all

[noisytenant]

alternative art and social websites tend to occupy certain niches, and sites allowing more controversial content tend to, through their permissiveness and consequent reputation and circumstance, collect mostly extreme, explicit, and often kind of unpleasant or tasteless examples.

but lots of people with more murky interests aren't really interested in making extreme things, and their art or writing is actually pretty tame or tasteful. they can feel turned off from posting on anything with too negative a reputation, so "extreme" sites remain extreme. yet operating on mainstream sites, there's a constant risk of harassment or termination for Bad Vibes depending on the luck of the draw.

often i wish there were someplace to collect these odd in-between expressions, which speak quite deeply to me. someplace that generally operates on a baseline of good faith without being full libertarian and generally has a culture that doesnt prioritize explicit and overt representations. i don't think it's something that can be defined with rules and regulations; i think it has to be a combination of intentional and emergent cultures. who knows if it's possible. maybe some day