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this post was submitted on 22 Feb 2026
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I hear you man. I agree, if I could disappear it, I would, but I can't and it's here. I think resisting it is just wasting energy. There is definitely a bubble of hype around it. Who knows, I don't.
It sounds like you continue to use it, though. How do you justify it in the face of what I laid out above? "Waste of energy" is a shitty excuse for engaging in bad behavior.
I don't excuse it. It was born unethically stealing all of the internet. But like I said, it's here, I sure as hell am not going to become amish and make cheese. I like living in the modern world. Maybe some day I'll retire to the woods, but for now I got to live in this world, so I might as well take it in the chin and accept the damn thing.
I totally respect people not using it, it's just I've found people on Lemmy kind of don't respect people using it. I'm not here to change the world, though, I'm happy I opened this discussion.