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Jul 28Liked by DAKLR

I got hooked on the internet. I became very used to watch youtube content while i worked or did anything for most of the day, i don't use social media but i was an habitual imageboarder.

I've weened off and its been super easy, not because of some great surge in willpower. The internet is simply awful, specially since AI slop became a thing.

Its not hard to stay away when everything is low quality, censored and full of ads and astroturfing, even normies around it are getting off social media because even midwits have s breaking point eventually. Almost no one will tell you social media brings sometjing positive to their lives, if they haven't quit they say they want to.

For younger people is harder because they were raised by apps and really don't know anything else, all their memories and social interactions came from the internet. For a zoomie being away from apps is like being dead.

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yeah it is just becoming progressively more intolerable, real people, though scarier than the screen are def better more interesting and kinder than this. I'm just a neet rn so I have no reason or desire to leave the house.

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Jul 28Liked by DAKLR

Forums were great. It was addicting to discuss and debate for hours with smart people and you could reslly get immersed in a hobby or a subject tha way. Online communities now don't offer scapism, its all engulfed by reddit or fillled with coomer furries or trans political activism.

If you substitute that internet with things like reading, listening audiobooks. Doing online courses and stuff like that you can still be a neet but its gonna be much rewarding , thats what i figured. At some point i realized i was spending more time watching bullshit internet content about anime ans vidya than actually playing videogames or watching anime. That made me feel ashamed of myself, that even for entertainment i've still been choosing the worst option. Even an sfternnon wasted watching actually good movies that you like is more fulfilling that the same time scrolling shit takes online.

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There is something to be said about the disillusionment one feels when realizing just how “infinite” the internet feels. We used to live in villages of maybe 500-ish people, and that’s about how many names we can remember on average. To be subject to the entire world’s input surely strains our brains in a way we can’t fathom, and the only way to cope with this is disillusionment.

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Not even. The internet doesn't feel like the magical place of endless possibilities it once did anymore, and the shattering of that illusion is the first step to freedom. It feels incredibly small when you keep seeing the same things over and over, you keep repeating the same things, you do the same thing every time you log on. At least we made some friends along the way.

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Good point. But even in our smaller internet circles, outer internet circles still influence them. It is those outer influences that strain the mind’s memory, and the smaller, dully repeated circles which beat down on the soul. Thus creating the feeling of disillusionment, or disappointment with the internet.

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Jul 28·edited Jul 28Author

Eh I'd say its more the amount of information is too much to process, which causes our minds to dull, constantly discarding new info using our brains like RAM instead of permanent storage. it's the repetition that strains ones spirits. Disillusionment only comes at realizing this, then despondence. Though addictive depressive symptoms of course can still manifest before this.

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Jul 31Liked by DAKLR

I wish I got to experience the fun internet but even that doesn’t exist anymore. When it was insular and free I bet you could at least have a more healthy and fun experience online but nowadays it’s literally all Indian or ai content farms pushing out nothingslop and filling comment sections with unintelligible nothingcomments. When normal people are on the internet the well is already poisoned by the nannylike algorithm that silences problematic thought.

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