Has your internet sort of "contracted" over the last two years or so?

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There was a time when I was active on Reddit and on several other more traditional message boards. Over the last year or so I've completely disengaged from all of these and I only post here and on the Roosh V forums. Both of these sites are somewhat lightly used (and, frankly, lacking in softball NPC arguments to flame) so I am definitely missing something that I used to enjoy. I suspect I'm not alone.

Reddit- I used to work around their bans but shit has gotten so bad there that I don't even bother. Almost not worth mentioning. I will say, I developed and implemented something I called "one-way social media" on Reddit, which basically consisted of flaming people and never reading their responses, and that innovation greatly increased my enjoyment level. I can still log in and see that I have 894 unread messages LMAO. Nah, I don't need that soy in my life. TC;DR (too cucked, didn't read).

Grassroots Motorsports- As car boards go (terrible) this was a pretty good one. There were a lot of opinionated old men there, but they knew their stuff and kept politics out of it.

Then, one day during the paroxsyms of St. George of Fentanyl, GRM made a sticky post describing how they'd donated to the "Southern Poverty Law Center." The SPLC is neither southern, impoverished, nor a "law center," and sees a klansman around every corner, so I disengaged from the site immediately and completely.

Tigerdroppings.com- Supposedly an LSU sports board, but so huge that the off-topic boards were a lot of fun (and anything resembling leftist or PC politics got slapped down pretty hard). The Ukraine invasion made this place intolerable. A bunch of guys there are or were military officers, and it sucked how they just lapped up the anti-Putin party line and tried to hardleg around their own experiences shooting goatherds and pretending it was war. I have zero respect for Western European culture or the US military so I didn't last long there, once muh war started.

I don't want to be melodramatic but it really is kind of like being in a bunker. Outside the party continues, but I'm not welcome.

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[–]fschmidt 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Naturally, as human intelligence contracts, my engagement with humanity also contracts.

[–]Penelope 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Yes, then you will be a neckbeard coder mumbling to themselves in the corner when not yelling at the tv/internet.

Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight, And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way, Do not go gentle into that good night. Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay, Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

[–]fschmidt 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Nice poem. What you got wrong is that while my engagement with humanity generally contracts, I put increasing effort into finding the tiny remnant of humanity that isn't moronic scum and working with them to build an alternative to mainstream humanity.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

-Bob Dylan

[–]fatman 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Most of the sites I like to visit are dying quickly. More and more spam and low quality content. Frequently someone posts high quality content (like a full length source video instead of a TikTok clip) and it disappears....

Where did all the real ones go? Has the Dead Internet been implemented by force? When did mods stop being gay and start being literally evil?

[–]Canbot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The dead internet is very real and the proof is in the massive loss of bot accounts on Twitter preceeding the musky takeover.

[–]Canbot 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

and, frankly, lacking in softball NPC arguments to flame

Don't give up on what you love. Brows reddit, screenshot the dumbest things you see, then post them to here with your best mockery. It's not the same as mocking them to thier face, but there is a chance that others will inform them that they have been flamed here. So you can enjoy the fact that they will eventually be embarrassed by thier stupidity.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

That's a good idea.

[–]IkeConn 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Nope. I have 1GB fiber optics internet. It's like $65 a month.

[–]chottohen 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yes, it has contracted. If not for saidit I might just give it up altogether.