I think for me, the internet would have to be totally eclipsed by the enshittification process, for me to revise how I use it and what for. I’ve been online for 28 years now and I am beginning to slow down more and more as time goes on. I used to have been a community seeker, an explorer and a very curious person.
But as I have watched and learned where the internet was going and all of the struggles it has faced. While personally having dealt with my own fair share of troubles with it, I am sometimes under the impression about being more than ready to hang it up and stick to just the minimalist way possible when it comes to the internet.
And we’re talking, only watching YouTube/Netflix, coming on to Second Life to do whatever, only interacting with who I know and just making sure things are taken care of with online bills and such. Nothing more.
My usage has gone down massively since I stopped using reddit. I use lemmy a lot less
I have been using the internet since before ISP’s existed and you had to have a university or government account.
I’ll never stop using it probably; It’s sad to me that people feel like the internet died/they lost something, because I still see all the old stuff there just with layers on top of it that come and go.
I’m a lemming now but I was a redditor before that, and a farker before that, and a mefite before that, and a linkfikter.net browser before that (never had cute names that far back), and dozens of other places that came and went.
Chat is still around. Irc is still around and there are many other modes, i’m in a lovely matrix room with those wonderful 196 cats and I love them. Usenet is still around. MUD’s are still around. BBS’ are still around.
Everyone can have whatever internet they want, I don’t understand the fears.
I already actively avoid the shithole that is YouTube, as in I refuse to follow a link if it’s YouTube and Google another path for what I need. Stopped Reddit, my only social media app last June, and now only on Lemmy a couple, the times per week. 5-10 years ago I used to complain about how bad Google was getting, little did I know how truly useless it would get.
You’re not kidding, with Google. Like fucking hell, it feels like the last time Google was remotely useful, was 15 years ago. That’s a long ass time it’s been since Google actually gave you results. Now it just gives results, but no relevancy. The first 3 links are sponsors, the rest of the links, are just either broken or places you’ve been to already where say if you were looking for something for research, then that part of the page doesn’t have what you’re looking for.
And it’s like, Google is so large of a company, you’d think they’d be so big as to care about sorting out it’s search engine so things like terms and certain words don’t collide with eachother right? Like, you google ‘Skillet’ and what do you get? You get more about the band named Skillet, than you do the actual pan skillet. Imagine if you’re someone who wants to know about skillet pans and that’s what you get, it’d be frsutrating.
Being retired and living on my grandma’s farm. I could do that today if I had the money. Just tune out everyone and everything. Watch broadcast TV and get movies from the library.
It would take a lot just because I find EVERY other method of doing things so much shittier as it is.
I don’t think Google could do anything bad enough for me to decide to start writing checks and mailing them out each month.
Google isn’t a bank…
You don’t say???
You did read the question before judging the answers, right? Because I feel like that would clear up a lot of your confusion.
That depends on what you mean by “the internet”.
For a long time, I have thought about how you would create a new, physically separate internet, there is nothing stopping you from buying some old switches and routers and starting going full Nokia with them.
There is also nothibg stopping you from setting up new servers dedicated on the new internet.
There has never been as much cheap and decent networking gear on the used market.
But that’s just a net without the inter part
No, it is the start of a new parallel internet, Internet 2 - Internet Harder if you will.
What I mean to say is that the internet is too usefull as a concept to just die, so if internet 1 dies, we have all the equipment to set up new internets to fullfill the need for digital communications.
Also, unless the vast majority of computers world get’s destroyed or we have no means of generating power, the internet won’t just die, it’ll change and turn unrecognizable, but it won’t just die.
Isn’t that what people in Cuba did
A boat and a fishing line.
The more apps / subs are required, the less I use it.
I’m actually pissed off too that I bought tickets for an upcoming show and it’s apparently REQUIRED you have to download the app to get your tickets. Serious BS. Just email me the fuckers!
I recently bought some tickets myself, and had to pay a couple of bucks extra to not use the app. Really pissed me off, but I almost never go to live shows anymore, so I just paid the stupid fee. I’m not leaving an app on my phone for 3 months for one show.
Can you screenshot the qrcode ?
Unclear. They are going to email it to me 7 days prior. Good suggestion, tho.
Another option in the future is passandroid. I have had success with that and was able to add tickets. As a final point i would say rate the apps on their respective stores and give them a terrible rating and state why.
it’s the same for certain sporting events. What kind of classist shit is this
Ill do it for enough money to make me not have to worry about food, shelter, healthcare, and such if thats a requirement. plenty to do outside the internet. it will be wierd doing all my banking and stuff in person from the wealth I am given I guess though.
Nah you just call your accountant and have them do it. You got jet skis to ride.
An EMP attack, probably
For the world to calm the fuck down.
I’ve already scaled back my use owning in part to the LLM (AI) menace and general enshitification, but if my country (USA) went fully authoritarian I would definitely scale back my use of the Internet even more.
I am there already. I try to self host and my only subscription is a vpn. I of course have to lookup stuff from time to time but its so bad nowadays. The results are garbage or the algorithm feeds you far right nonsense because you accidentally clicked a video on the youtube homepage.
Then every second site wants you to do a captcha or make an account just to read an article… Get the fuck outta here with your account., instantly close the tab.
Then we have the abysmal data mining and constant breaches because these fucks dont want to pay for proper security but ok its because their pages says they use “military grade encryption” which is usually just TLS.
This is my only social media account. Specifically because it is non commercial.
/end bill burr rant
Not much more, honestly. I’m pretty close to making sweeping changes to how I use my free time.
I’ll quit it when everyone else stops using it too
