the internet is so shitty I retreated to a couple of kind of oldschool “forums” and primarily exist on there now.
yeah the content is scattered and I might not find very many people with some specific interest, but I know they are real people and we’re not getting swarmed by bots, ads, and glowies
People started wearing anti-trump hats that were red, and still end up getting nearly jumped over it.
I voiced this concern elsewhere recentley, it terrifies me to think of how much energy, bandwidth, computing power, and storage all goes into what is essentially, frivilous, pointless, lazy, stupid bullshit when it comes to AI and what people actually use it for.
Im also here because of a reddit perma.
at first I was sad because I wasnt able to participate in niche communities that are important to me, but after a while I found other ways of talking to people about those things,
“Just goes to show, things are always great right up until the point the “cool kids” get in on it and make it popular.”
thats how I feel about the internet in general, 90s, 00s, early 2010s the world wasnt terminally online, just the nerdy and geeky people were. But now that everyone is online, the reality is that most people are too untrustworthy or too stupid to be trusted with the internet because well, you see everything that happened.