I only frequent like 5 websites these days, and the content gets old real quick. This was less of a problem when I used social media but social media is bad for my mental health. Yes I could go outside but its cold and it makes my back ache.

What cool underground websites do you frequent?

  • sooper_dooper_roofer [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    reasons the internet is changing:

    • A few websites monopolized. Instead of multitude of small personal websites, with passion projects and theories on same webpage, you now view a "youtube channel". This means lower diversity of viewpoints (youtube bans) and also less in-depth study of any one person's ideology (youtube sidebar distractions)
    • Those few websites are so big nothing could replace them. The ease of information we're accustomed to now prevents us from searching alternate sources of info, because too much work
    • google does not work anymore. stopped working sometime in 2019. I don't know if this is nefarious, or if just so much junk built-up over the decades that they have to scrub 90% of the results.
    • people's lives suck more, so interacting with them on the internet also sucks more

    I've found GenXer and Boomers are the most interesting people on the internet. (I'm Milennial)

    A lot of them are crazy and stupid, but at least the stuff they say is different, and it makes it feel like there's a different world out there other than tiktok-dance-fad-normie-verify.your.identity.everywhere-circuit and discord-whitecel-hitler-4chan circuit. And if they do end up saying politically stupid things, it's at least tempered by the fact that they didn't get their entire worldviews from watching the same 10 youtubers

    I haven't really learned/heard anything interesting or new from talking to zoomers. I guess this could just be partially a general age thing. But I also earnestly think our Millennial internet back in 2010 was also much more interesting and pleasant. Even the fash back then had less of their ego tied up in it, and I can only attribute the change since to the fact that Zoomers are having less sex and producing a bunch of men who adopt fascism and race-war aesthetics as a substitute for individual self-esteem. Zoomer culture is definitely the most homogenized one, and also the largest one on the internet.