What would it take for you to stop using the internet or go minimalist on the usage? (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago by nytrixus@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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I think for me, the internet would have to be totally eclipsed by the enshittification process, for me to revise how I use it and what for. I've been online for 28 years now and I am beginning to slow down more and more as time goes on. I used to have been a community seeker, an explorer and a very curious person.

But as I have watched and learned where the internet was going and all of the struggles it has faced. While personally having dealt with my own fair share of troubles with it, I am sometimes under the impression about being more than ready to hang it up and stick to just the minimalist way possible when it comes to the internet.

And we're talking, only watching YouTube/Netflix, coming on to Second Life to do whatever, only interacting with who I know and just making sure things are taken care of with online bills and such. Nothing more.

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[-] thegreatgarbo@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

I already actively avoid the shithole that is YouTube, as in I refuse to follow a link if it's YouTube and Google another path for what I need. Stopped Reddit, my only social media app last June, and now only on Lemmy a couple, the times per week. 5-10 years ago I used to complain about how bad Google was getting, little did I know how truly useless it would get.

[-] nytrixus@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

You're not kidding, with Google. Like fucking hell, it feels like the last time Google was remotely useful, was 15 years ago. That's a long ass time it's been since Google actually gave you results. Now it just gives results, but no relevancy. The first 3 links are sponsors, the rest of the links, are just either broken or places you've been to already where say if you were looking for something for research, then that part of the page doesn't have what you're looking for.

And it's like, Google is so large of a company, you'd think they'd be so big as to care about sorting out it's search engine so things like terms and certain words don't collide with eachother right? Like, you google 'Skillet' and what do you get? You get more about the band named Skillet, than you do the actual pan skillet. Imagine if you're someone who wants to know about skillet pans and that's what you get, it'd be frsutrating.

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