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Do other people have a similar feeling about the internet? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 month ago by ModernRisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/goodoffmychest@lemmy.world

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I do not get enjoyment anymore out of being online, not at all. I used to really love being online; Gaming, Reddit, Discord and all that. Especially certain games and Reddit (games due to MMO and Reddit because of fun video’s, niche communities and such).

However, for the past several years I actually do not like being online and even sort of despise it. There’s no fun at all anymore, everything is either AI, ragebait, politics turned into fights and just overall misery around the world (wars, fascism, racism and general hatred).

Even the communities that should be fun end up often enough into the same things as mention previously (such as politics, ragebait and hatred). I have even tried different platforms (such Instagram, Tumblr, BlueSky, Mastodon). Even Lemmy itself ended up with a lot of the same issues Reddit has.

Yet with knowing this, I still end up being online. Reddit, Lemmy and occasionally Instagram. It’s this kind of FOMO thing: ‘’what if there’s news about X thing’’ or ‘’there might be something fun now’’. Not only that, life its self is also not so fun and kind of boring (office work, work from home and some life circumstances) and due to that still end up being online.

This post is kind of three things; a rant, offmychest and a question to the reader.

So I was wondering; do other people have a similar feeling about the internet not being so fun anymore as it used to be?

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[–] karashta@piefed.social 2 points 1 month ago

I still have plenty of fun online interacting with my friends I've built up over the years. We chat on discord, hang out in mutual friends' twitch streams, game, etc.

I limit my engagement with Lemmy to right after I wake up or while on the can. There's some news I choose to engage with on YouTube every day to keep up on things but it is a choice I consciously make. I normally curate mine heavily and it's largely mini documentaries on subjects I find interesting. Or cooking recipes I watch to help me figure out what to make with my ingredients I have for dinner.

I feel like my experience is this way because I still engage with the internet the same way: curated by me as much as I like. I don't scroll any algorithm but YouTube and I constantly search for things rather than let it just give me them. I have never used autoplay. It's still me searching for things and interacting with things on the internet, not the internet just showing me things. No, I don't think I'm above algorithms, manipulation or propaganda, etc., I just still use them the way I have for 25+ years.

This is totally anecdotal obviously and I'm not claiming this is the sole reason I still enjoy the internet a lot. But I do feel like it is something that could be a large contributing factor.