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The rest of the internet is bad, like real fucking bad, this place and lemmygrad and trueanon (when they're not saying shitty stuff) are like the only good normal healthy places left online. (hexbear.net)

submitted 2 months ago by SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net to c/chat@hexbear.net

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Just putting that out there. While we might have struggle sessions over bullshit, the larger internet zeitgeist is putrid and rancid.

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[–] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 42 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I used to have a bunch of cosy little forums to check out daily. They're all dead now and probably moved to Discord, and I hate Discord. Everything else is on Reddit or Twitter or any of the other massive social media platforms which are full of fascists.

[–] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 32 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I miss that about the old internet. I'd get home from school and read through a daily rotation of sites' articles, forums, and blogs. Most of them don't exist anymore or have completely gone to shit. Ones that are functional are overrun by terminally online chuds whining about minorities and women. Decades ago, they'd get banned for the things they say today or chased off by normalish people. Now, they're the majority of site users, so they get a pass.

[–] Cat_Daddy@hexbear.net 20 points 2 months ago

RSS feeds were awesome back then.

[–] TraschcanOfIdeology@hexbear.net 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I went full circle and now just read the local communist newspaper. They're libs, but yknow

[–] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 5 points 2 months ago

Oh yeah, that's another thing I miss, sites with articles on them, now everything is a video, livestream or podcast. More than once after watching a YouTube video I've been left with the thought ”that was just a person reading a bunch of wiki articles and summarizing them”.