I got a ban from reddit and you know what? I actually feel better for not being there anymore. I never actually realised just how much of an affect that endless drama on there was having on my mental health.
I think back to those old school forums, and it really was simpler time. People were more genuine, and hadnt been utterly mind fucked by all the algorithms poisoning their opinions about movies they hadnt seen and books they hadnt read.
You could even meet people IRL from some places, and it wasnt a big deal. Now everyone is a rapist, murder bot with a weird bum fetish, and meeting anyone is an insane idea.
Just goes to show, things are always great right up until the point the “cool kids” get in on it and make it popular.
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.
I got a ban from reddit and you know what? I actually feel better for not being there anymore. I never actually realised just how much of an affect that endless drama on there was having on my mental health.
I think back to those old school forums, and it really was simpler time. People were more genuine, and hadnt been utterly mind fucked by all the algorithms poisoning their opinions about movies they hadnt seen and books they hadnt read.
You could even meet people IRL from some places, and it wasnt a big deal. Now everyone is a rapist, murder bot with a weird bum fetish, and meeting anyone is an insane idea.
Just goes to show, things are always great right up until the point the “cool kids” get in on it and make it popular.
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.