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Don't want to date myself, but finding new sites and communities used to be fun.

Are there any cool sites anymore? Besides this one, of course?

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[–] AdmiralDoohickey@hexbear.net 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It's dead, there is no fun in just browsing anymore. You are going to encounter some chud's bloodthirsty take or a piece of doomer news that is going to sour the mood really quickly into a session. You aren't going to have the pure-hearted fun you could have had even in 2019 (although things were obviously worse than before both in the digital and IRL space already). Even now you are consuming more and more AI slop without even knowing it is slop, in a few years time it is probably going to drown everything genuine out.

I miss having something relatively "easy" to do during the downtime between other stuff, now I just sit on the computer for 1 hour and then just stop in order to avoid doomscrolling when I could spend hours and hours into exciting new things on the web before. It was my home more than my real hometown or country ever was, and it probably shaped me into a better person than I would have been if I had only gotten my right-wing parents' upbringing, and I will forever hate the capitalists for destroying it and depriving the next generations of it.