Everywhere I go, I feel this.

>>105866934 (OP)
It's time to go outside

>>105866973
it's just as worse

>>105866934 (OP)
You're not alone anon. The magic of the internet is dead. We used to get excited over random websites doing cool shit for no reason, pure creativity, no agenda. Now? Same handful of recycled websites, SEO fucker search results, soulless psy-op discourse, gay poltics pushers, and a community of professional misery addicts clapping like seals over the next empty outrage. Everything feels sterilized, fake, and exhausting.

I am tired and only 4Chan (excluding obvious bait boards) feels familiar.

>>105866973
But anon, the virus waits outside. You don't want grandma to die, don't you?

>>105867038
Please update database for 2025, 2021 script is outdated

>>105867028
Nobody's stopping you from making your own website with hookers and blow.

>>105867107
I can, but it will be like screaming into the void, but with bot comments and LLM harvesting

>>105867147
Google search couldn't even push their own website called Blogspot. What a very different internet from 20 years ago.

>>105867107
I am making them, I'll make my own shit but that's no fun for me.

>>105866934 (OP)
The web is dead but the BBS lives again but this time over the net instead of dialup. The one I frequent has ~50 active users but all the BBSes are linked together with different nets so you have people to chat with.
That and gopher are my main haunts now as they are free of commercial nonsense. Just a small but dedicated group of people.

>>105866973
Honestly we could use the same sentence OP used for irl too.

Finding a balance is kinda hard

>>105867265
Here you go

>>105867107
Unless you manage to convince a relevant percentage of zoomers and alphas, it's all for naught

>>105867331
Fair enough

>>105867415
On a long enough time line everything is for nought but that didn't stop me from setting up a gopher server and posting some poorly written journal entries.
Maybe if enough people scream into the void we can find each other and have some fun.
What else are you going to do with your time?

>>105867453
I float on the void, I get more enjoyment of not using any major social media platforms, you tend to find more intellectual oriented people

>>105866973
nah, I'm good

>>105867028
Part of the problem is that troons are disproportionately likely to make a personal indie site
In order to fix that, you need to make a site and not be a fag
That’s an agenda if you want it to be
But if you want the internet to be less fake and/or gay you need to do it yourself
Or, better yet, get married and have three or four kids and not care about how the magic is mostly gone
Because I’m not seeing how making an indie website is going to get you a wife-tier girlfriend

>>105867147
True, you have to be willing to scream into the void
>>105867248
The nice thing about Gemini is discovery of new capsules isn’t ridiculously hard

>>105866934 (OP)
You know where I still get that SOVLful, magic, exploring-uncharted-waters feeling of wonder, ingenuity and hope?
From those old ass, monothematic, random blogs or single purpose websites, like this one https://pigeonwriter.wordpress.com
There was so little on the web, that you genuinely felt and knew that your random thoughts on pigeons mattered.
It was before fucking corporations began corrupting everything. I will personally slash Peter Thiel's throat and face the consequences, given the chance. I want a more sane world back.

>>105867453
Beyond based.

>>105867028
the magic of being young is dead. because we're old.

>>105869401
Its not about being young although that might be part. Recently on gopher I discovered cosmic.voyage, a public *nix machine that hosts a collaborative writing project.
Anyone can get a shell account and use it to start writing and I don't know about you but that is awesome and the exact type of thing you don't see on the wider web anymore.
And yes I know cosmic.voyage mirrors their content in http but it's cooler to read it on your Mac SE with turbo gopher.
My point is you can find cool stuff at any age with the right kind of eyes and the right network/software

>>105866973
It didn't work

>>105867331
>>105866934 (OP)
>there's just ... more indians in it

>>105869798
Like our machines, we are in a constant state of entropy. We might have some innocence, some wonder left. It's true we lost a lot of stuff, but it's also because we ourselves stopped making it and going to it.
I mean frenchies were making exquisite corpse creative writing collabs in teahouses before the internet and there'll be a roblox type variant of it in the future.

Different hat, same idea. But in a shape that will be nigh incomprehensible to fossils like us.

Unless indians and mass migration crushes that spirit and pushes into ever smaller and harder to find niches.

I thinknone of the differences is genuinely that the composition of people you run into has just changed online, which is why it feels more like a bombay market than an oslo computer hobby group of people you run into.