I’ve actually started to enjoy internet more recently. I went back to IRC, found a nice network with a wholesome community which is growing all the time. Recently added a phpbb based forum, which is not very active yet but thats more because its fairly new. Lots of self hosting enthusiasts there, I’ve learned a bunch. Spent the last few weeks setting up Jellyfin and Navidrome for my dad to use, so he doesnt have to deal with repeats on the Telly or pay for stupid subscriptions. I did the navidrome with a old laptop, I put in a headless Debian and use it through SSH on my Fedora. A year ago I barely knew how to do “sudo apt install”, without this community I wouldnt have been able to do any of it. For the first time in 15 years, I’m enjoying my time online. Like properly enjoying.
So its not about internet being ruined, its about finding that spot that you can enjoy. Let people rot their brains in tiktak and facetagram, you find yourself a nice community of like minded people. It takes some effort, but the communities are there. And if they are not, make one yourself.
Yeah thats one of the reasons I enjoy a smaller community with the IRC network and forum I was talking about. Its so much nicer to converse when you know its a person on the other side of the screen. I spend more time and effort on responses when I know the user already, at least on some level. With reddit and mastodon its more like “send whatever, turn off notifications” type of deal.
Though with reddit even thats coming to an end, rumor is they gonna finally axe old.reddit. I’m sort of holding out until then, the formula1 sub is quite valuable for me still, even though even that place is full of morons now. With Mastodon I never got off the ground. I log in like once a month, if that, read a couple of posts and then log off again. Maybe its because I mainly use it with my phone, I dont remember my password and the mobile browser is the only place where its saved hahah
I’ve actually started to enjoy internet more recently. I went back to IRC, found a nice network with a wholesome community which is growing all the time. Recently added a phpbb based forum, which is not very active yet but thats more because its fairly new. Lots of self hosting enthusiasts there, I’ve learned a bunch. Spent the last few weeks setting up Jellyfin and Navidrome for my dad to use, so he doesnt have to deal with repeats on the Telly or pay for stupid subscriptions. I did the navidrome with a old laptop, I put in a headless Debian and use it through SSH on my Fedora. A year ago I barely knew how to do “sudo apt install”, without this community I wouldnt have been able to do any of it. For the first time in 15 years, I’m enjoying my time online. Like properly enjoying.
So its not about internet being ruined, its about finding that spot that you can enjoy. Let people rot their brains in tiktak and facetagram, you find yourself a nice community of like minded people. It takes some effort, but the communities are there. And if they are not, make one yourself.
Also you are using piefed.social which aggressively filters out AI content, the topic of the article.
And I love you for that :)
It really makes a big difference.
I’ve greatly reduced my Mastodon usage because of the daily “oh shit this link goes to AI slop again, sigh, close tab” experience. It’s such a drag.
Yeah thats one of the reasons I enjoy a smaller community with the IRC network and forum I was talking about. Its so much nicer to converse when you know its a person on the other side of the screen. I spend more time and effort on responses when I know the user already, at least on some level. With reddit and mastodon its more like “send whatever, turn off notifications” type of deal.
Though with reddit even thats coming to an end, rumor is they gonna finally axe old.reddit. I’m sort of holding out until then, the formula1 sub is quite valuable for me still, even though even that place is full of morons now. With Mastodon I never got off the ground. I log in like once a month, if that, read a couple of posts and then log off again. Maybe its because I mainly use it with my phone, I dont remember my password and the mobile browser is the only place where its saved hahah