my opinion on the new internet is that it depends on where you look. the mainstream stuff sucks ass now & maybe some of them even always sucked: youtube, twitter, spotify, etc. but you can still find neat obscure sites and forums if you know where to look for them, like this forum or neocities or ...

used to write on fanfiction.net and kept getting friggin pms from people telling me they liked my 2 paragraph long jackie chan fanfiction and wanted to collab with me. what do ya know, they're either bots or make nsfw literature.

mainstream bad, indie good, you know the drill.

I'm lucky enough to have an extended family where at least some know the value of actually talking and interacting with one another. I had a great thanksgiving. As for actions I've taken myself:


General: Installed an extension reminding me how ...

So I actually have mixed feelings on the current internet and tech landscape.
Like... alot of the mainstream is bad. It's optimized to keep you on as long as possible to sites/platforms; something I'm trying to break away from with mixed success. Alot of these platforms are also designed more for ...

Honestly, I don't particularly dislike the new internet but I do believe that the old internet (by that I mean everything from the early 2000s to early 2010s) was way more fun and joyful. I don't know, from what I've seen it seemed like people back then were more energetic and fun, like the general ...

the more cancerous parts of internet culture


i agree, however there is only ONE thing i don’t miss about the old web at all (and pardon my french): the casual use of words like “cancer”, “autistic”, “retarded”, and racial slurs among users to describe things they don’t like. that language can ...

i agree, however there is only ONE thing i don’t miss about the old web at all (and pardon my french): the casual use of words like “cancer”, “autistic”, “retarded”, and racial slurs among users to describe things they don’t like. that language can stay languishing in the past where it belongs

I ...

My opinion on the internet now: The good stuff is drowned in an ocean of bad stuff.

Right now we have an absolute tsunami of AI-generated content, in the form of websites, art, and videos. It became hard to use search engines to find meaningful content when the first 10 pages are AI websites or ...

(I haven't read many other replies here because that's a whole lot of text to read, so sorry if I repeat anything from other posts!)

We have Data centers that are literally ruining the quality of life of people in real life , just to host AI junk.
They are raising electricity bills, polluting ...

i like, unironically have a major phobia of AI generated imagery... its the only thing i actually need tagged yet its so rampant on the internet. i dont like it. everything about ai "art" scares me, and ai videos mess me up even more. ugh