Sincerely: use the Internet less. It’s better for you anyway, but in general we’re seeing a real crackdown from corporations and governments. In response if we all just stop using it so much because it’s becoming unpleasant anyway they won’t know what to do. And maybe a happy side effect if everyone starts to kick the Internet habit is the population becoming generally more sane
The Internet is a big place with plenty of value in it still. If all you do is scroll the big 5 brainrot sites, then yeah you’re probably not going to find a ton of enrichment, but that doesn’t mean ‘Internet bad’. That’s almost like saying ‘food is bad for you’
If you really want to make a difference, contribute to the spaces on the Internet that are good rather than avoiding it all together
I didn’t say “Internet bad” and I didn’t say not to use it at all. I said to use it less, with the implication being to cultivate a life outside of it too, too many people just use the Internet as much as possible and they put up with whatever shit gets thrown at them to keep using it. Like, I’m in the UK so I’m getting hit full-force with this ID shit and I’ve just decided that - as far as I possibly can - if a site needs to see my ID to access it maybe I just don’t need that site. I’m not showing my ID, I’m not using any of the clever tricks people have come up with to get around it, I’m not using a VPN to get around it, I just won’t use that site, and if that leads me to spending less time online then so be it. And if we could all make that decision then things might pick up a lot faster
I didn’t say not to use it at all, I said to use it less. If you genuinely are unable to connect to other people without the Internet then I am truly sorry about your situation, but if it’s at all remotely possible that you could connect with people offline - even if you first meet them online - then I really urge you to figure out a way to do it because that’s how we break the power of these ghouls, we stop using “their” stuff for our needs
Yeah fair. I used to go to more stuff but a lot of it is the thought of getting covid freaks me out and I don’t live somewhere with a lot of meetup groups around anymore. Honestly I’ve always seen it as the other way, where irl spaces (especially ones that take money) are run by hostile or incompatible forces, and the internet as something with more exceptions to that, even now that it’s become worse.
It’s certainly a tricky one, I feel like a lot of us have some trauma still from covid anyway, and the world is just acting like it has gone away. At least in the real world there are spaces outside that can’t be controlled that easily. I feel you on the meetup groups too, I’d love some local queer friends but I don’t know where the local queer people are meeting up. But the Internet is becoming the ultimate hostile space very quickly and sadly we need to either accept it or try and pull away now before it’s too late
Sincerely: use the Internet less. It’s better for you anyway, but in general we’re seeing a real crackdown from corporations and governments. In response if we all just stop using it so much because it’s becoming unpleasant anyway they won’t know what to do. And maybe a happy side effect if everyone starts to kick the Internet habit is the population becoming generally more sane
The Internet is a big place with plenty of value in it still. If all you do is scroll the big 5 brainrot sites, then yeah you’re probably not going to find a ton of enrichment, but that doesn’t mean ‘Internet bad’. That’s almost like saying ‘food is bad for you’
If you really want to make a difference, contribute to the spaces on the Internet that are good rather than avoiding it all together
I didn’t say “Internet bad” and I didn’t say not to use it at all. I said to use it less, with the implication being to cultivate a life outside of it too, too many people just use the Internet as much as possible and they put up with whatever shit gets thrown at them to keep using it. Like, I’m in the UK so I’m getting hit full-force with this ID shit and I’ve just decided that - as far as I possibly can - if a site needs to see my ID to access it maybe I just don’t need that site. I’m not showing my ID, I’m not using any of the clever tricks people have come up with to get around it, I’m not using a VPN to get around it, I just won’t use that site, and if that leads me to spending less time online then so be it. And if we could all make that decision then things might pick up a lot faster
I hear what you’re saying but I think I would probably never talk to anyone without the internet and be very less sane
I didn’t say not to use it at all, I said to use it less. If you genuinely are unable to connect to other people without the Internet then I am truly sorry about your situation, but if it’s at all remotely possible that you could connect with people offline - even if you first meet them online - then I really urge you to figure out a way to do it because that’s how we break the power of these ghouls, we stop using “their” stuff for our needs
Yeah fair. I used to go to more stuff but a lot of it is the thought of getting covid freaks me out and I don’t live somewhere with a lot of meetup groups around anymore. Honestly I’ve always seen it as the other way, where irl spaces (especially ones that take money) are run by hostile or incompatible forces, and the internet as something with more exceptions to that, even now that it’s become worse.
It’s certainly a tricky one, I feel like a lot of us have some trauma still from covid anyway, and the world is just acting like it has gone away. At least in the real world there are spaces outside that can’t be controlled that easily. I feel you on the meetup groups too, I’d love some local queer friends but I don’t know where the local queer people are meeting up. But the Internet is becoming the ultimate hostile space very quickly and sadly we need to either accept it or try and pull away now before it’s too late
The irony being the internet is where the left retreated when the real world became too hostile
https://youtu.be/Gr7T07WfIhM&t=2525s
If the time marker didn’t work in the link, skip to 42:10
And then the right followed us and we ceded that to them too. We have a long, horrible uphill struggle before us
The truth nobody wants to hear. We need an incorruptible successor to the internet, and until then I’ll be spending as much time offline as I can
In other words, touch grass?