Hexbear and FFXIV are the meat of my internet usage. I have a huge media stockpile of stuff I've never watched/played/listened/read so it's not a huge deal yet.

I feel better after cutting off vidya games a couple years ago (caused too much stress/frustration) and deleting my reddit account a few months ago. I have an escapist personality. Those things — and others — are poor coping mechanisms that only make me feel worse when various social debts build up while I was “out”.

My lesson is, take the opportunity to literally touch grass or maybe join a club. We’re probably better off with minimal internet usage.

There are fun places but I avoid them because they are made to be addicting and I am very susceptible

I do this thing where I block social media apps after 40ish minutes of use. And sometimes I do a social media "cleanse" where I just delete all the apps off my phone and...it bricks the phone and my computer. I don't play games on my apple devices, so other than youtubing constantly, or learning something, there's not a lot to do on the web. Maybe you could say Kanopy, or watching netflix but that's not like...doing things. You are just passively consuming.

Good faith is dead.

Outrage is fuel.

Hell is full.

It has been a steep slide downwards for 15 years at least, but Covid and Trump pumped a lot of life into Twitter and Facebook. Now that both are over, everyone is going back outside and my Facebook cycling group has an old man complaining about rainbow flags

You won't believe me, but I've found something sort of like that old Internet atmosphere in VRchat of all places.

I'm surprised all of you feel this way, sure you're not all just growing up?

TikTok, Twitter, YouTube, illegal anime streams, illegal tv show streams, illegal movie streams, illegal PDFs of books, any type of music you can think of, looking at any type of art you can think of, reading people's blogs, listening to podcasts, watching sports, etc. etc.

I recommend listening to the Joe Rogan Experience if anybody is getting bored of the internet. And try DMT while watching it

Guy's never heard of Youtube

There's an infinite amount of channels doing videos on every imaginable hyperspecific niche interest now, you will never run out

Just sit down and let the algorithm smooth your brain.

What's this? A guy comparing how the design and anatomy of the various species in the Oddworld franchise has changed across games in 25+ years? Well I know how I'm spending my next half hour

Abe's face has more wrinkles in New N' Tasty than in Abe's Oddysee??? The Slig masks were changed between Exoddus and Munch's Oddysee????

eh, there's still some fun to be had
though most of it is on discord and telegram now
and places like this exist

I think it's a bit of column A and also perhaps the highly engaging yet-sterile entertainment of 'the internet' doesn't have the same hit after ~25 years? spitballing