When I was growing up the internet was a place to be liberated from the world say what you want to say, be whoever you want and form genuine communities with shared interests. Now the internet feels like a tool to enslave the mind with identity echo chambers and any deviation leads you to being banned and blocked shunned and silenced within a void that is inescapable. Novel unique websites coded manually by hobbyists running servers for free in the commons allowing people access to the free flow of information under the banner of “information should be free” has largely gone away with corpratisation. I miss the days when the internet was populated largely by nerds aiming to make a better world not this controlled censored hell hole of profiteering.

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    11 months ago

    Yes. So am I sick of our atomised society. But for goodness sake try to identify why that occurs.

    The problem is capitalism. Because we are all fooled into competing with each other over scraps, rather than banding together into communities that are better able to provide support within themselves.

    The fault isn’t that people explore their identities and find community that way.

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      11 months ago

      Yeah capitalism with the prevailing ideology of liberalism with peoples identity of the ego leading to individualised atomised society.

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          11 months ago

          Well I’m unwell and doing my best, never tell the NHS mental health that you are moving towards a more conservative position within the left wing sphere.