A Boring Dystopia

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bet you can think of more (midwest.social)

submitted 8 hours ago by Corelli_III@midwest.social to c/aboringdystopia@lemmy.world

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[–] LuckingFurker@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

Sincerely: use the Internet less. It's better for you anyway, but in general we're seeing a real crackdown from corporations and governments. In response if we all just stop using it so much because it's becoming unpleasant anyway they won't know what to do. And maybe a happy side effect if everyone starts to kick the Internet habit is the population becoming generally more sane

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I hear what you're saying but I think I would probably never talk to anyone without the internet and be very less sane

[–] LuckingFurker@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 hour ago

I didn't say not to use it at all, I said to use it less. If you genuinely are unable to connect to other people without the Internet then I am truly sorry about your situation, but if it's at all remotely possible that you could connect with people offline - even if you first meet them online - then I really urge you to figure out a way to do it because that's how we break the power of these ghouls, we stop using "their" stuff for our needs

[–] LazerDickMcCheese@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 hours ago

The truth nobody wants to hear. We need an incorruptible successor to the internet, and until then I'll be spending as much time offline as I can

[–] tehmics@lemmy.world 8 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

The Internet is a big place with plenty of value in it still. If all you do is scroll the big 5 brainrot sites, then yeah you're probably not going to find a ton of enrichment, but that doesn't mean 'Internet bad'. That's almost like saying 'food is bad for you'

If you really want to make a difference, contribute to the spaces on the Internet that are good rather than avoiding it all together

[–] LuckingFurker@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 1 hour ago

I didn't say "Internet bad" and I didn't say not to use it at all. I said to use it less, with the implication being to cultivate a life outside of it too, too many people just use the Internet as much as possible and they put up with whatever shit gets thrown at them to keep using it. Like, I'm in the UK so I'm getting hit full-force with this ID shit and I've just decided that - as far as I possibly can - if a site needs to see my ID to access it maybe I just don't need that site. I'm not showing my ID, I'm not using any of the clever tricks people have come up with to get around it, I'm not using a VPN to get around it, I just won't use that site, and if that leads me to spending less time online then so be it. And if we could all make that decision then things might pick up a lot faster