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.
The more apps / subs are required, the less I use it.
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My usage has gone down massively since I stopped using reddit. I use lemmy a lot less
I’ll quit it when everyone else stops using it too
An EMP attack, probably
Not much more, honestly. I’m pretty close to making sweeping changes to how I use my free time.
I stopped using all social media besides Lemmy. In part I realized how much of it is used by influencers and companies to sell shit and it’s become worthless. On top of that, when I use Facebook I can barely find actual pictures when I attempt to catch up with family by looking at their pages. Once in a while I make an attempt then give up when all the bullshit gets crammed down my throat. The only reason why my Facebook still exists is the use the messenger to keep in touch with family that way.
I remember using Twitter to actually keep in touch with my gaming friends. Then they started with the algorithms. I used to use Tweetcaster. I stopped using Twitter entirely once that happened because it used to bypass those algorithms and the ads. I stopped using Reddit when Reddit is Fun went down.
Now I just scroll Lemmy. Even that is limited because of all the depressing news. Sometimes I get frustrated by the 15 reposts of the same article and I get tired of having to interact with them to get them to go away. I just don’t get the same reward I used to get when I looked through posts or scrolled through tweets of friends once upon a time. I’m just tired of the enshittification.
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For the world to calm the fuck down.
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.
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
Probably, I don’t know the situation off hand.
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.
A new career mostly, am web developer
Complete isolation from the rest of the network. As long as the network and protocols exist, and I have a computer, I can make my own website. Along with others who think the same way. The Internet can never really die except through total infrastructure collapse.
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.
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