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.

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    5 months ago

    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.

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        5 months ago

        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.