reddit is shit and makes me annoyed, twitter is shit and makes me annoyed, tiktok is shit and makes me annoyed, pure news sites are boring, cracked is dead, google doesn’t work anymore, lemmy is only memes and news and fairly slow

i feel like i used to be able to sink into an activity on this machine, but now i just spend 5 minutes somewhere, the algorithm runs out of content, i get annoyed and go somewhere else, same process happens. i feel like i have amnesia, i used to enjoy this but i have no idea how.

  • SavvyWolf
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    46 months ago

    I mostly just read things on Mastodon, Lemmy and Bluesky, even though I didn’t really do much social media in the before times. Actually got in touch with a side of myself I’ve been neglecting for a while, I guess. However, I’ve also learned that I’m not the kind of person that can deal with people online being sad, which is a problem on leftist social media where everyone is suffering. I should really touch grass or something.

    Other than that, I’ve been gaming and trying to talk with friends over Discord (nobody is online much nowadays. ;_;).

    • cabbage
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      6 months ago

      I never spent much time on Twitter or on Reddit - I have an old Reddit account, but it has 15 karma or something like that. Likewise I have a very old Twitter account, but I never posted anything to it nor did I use it to follow people. I just never had any interest.

      For some reason, the social web sucks me in in the same way PhpBB forums did when I was in my early teens. Not quite as bad of course, but it’s still striking.

      Other than Mastodon and this place, I read news and sometimes tinker with my personal website. I rarely struggle to waste time if I want to.