you're probably not even guaranteed to meet real people on reddit anymore

  • UncleJoe [comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    I remember when the Internet felt like the wild west and I was just discovering new shit every day, now I alternate between the same 5 websites because there is absolutely nothing to find out there :sadness-abysmal:

    Reddit itself is a fucking piece of shit filled with the biggest pieces of shit on earth, which makes it even sadder that it's one of the only not completely garbage places on the Internet. 4chan was the only remaining site that still felt alive and different, but now after /pol/ution got to it literally almost every single board is just "hey /tg/ any one else really hate blacks" and an endless cycle of based cringe based cringe based cringe :wojak-nooo::gigachad::wojak-nooo::gigachad::wojak-nooo::gigachad::wojak-nooo::gigachad: to the point that it's literally impossible to even have a semi coherent discussion. I am 90% sure half that website is literally bots LMAO. Search engines feel almost useless cause they all return almost the same results that are just scam websites. All the small niche hobby forums are dying and moving on to different, mainstream platforms. There is literally nothing interesting to find out there. Which I mean works in my favor I suppose, since I can now finally almost log off by getting a RSS feed aggregator and just feed it the few subreddits and YT channels I like as well as plenty of news sources and podcasts, and I basically don't need to open the web at all, except maybe to look up something. I can finally actually touch grass, but, part of me still really, really, really wants to go back to how the Internet used to be :doomer:

      • UncleJoe [comrade/them]
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        3 years ago

        Ok thanks for this, not even 10 minutes of browsing and I think I already found a chapo :sicko-hexbear:

        • thethirdgracchi [he/him, they/them]
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          3 years ago

          Yeah Gemini leans very left for obvious reasons, and there are a few chapos (like me) on there!! There's even some social media on Station (station.martinrue.com) and midnight pub (midnight.pub) and a few other sites I'm forgetting. I have some poems on there at voidpoems.voyage as well.