vent post please ignore

I’m so sick of being a shameful social embarrassment, holy shit how pathetic do you have to be to be incapable of talking to people ON THE INTERNET

Fuck talking to people in general

  • SootySootySoot [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    8·
    8 months ago

    Some forums have always been famously nasty places. For those of us old enough to remember the internet pre-2010, and lucky enough to stumble on the right corners of the internet, plenty of forums were actually super cool, tiny, self-moderated niche communities with like 20-30 active users tops where you could genuinely share passions and make friends. All but one of my good online friends I have now were made back then.

    No idea how anyone would find many nice interactions now. Hexbear is as close as it gets for me, but it’s still significantly different.

    • Absolute@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      5·
      8 months ago

      This is spot on, all of my longest and closest friends in life are people I met on a niche web forum pre 2010. The internet used to be so different before social media, that’s why I enjoy being on the fediverse so much because its the closest call back to that