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The internet has always been my salvation.

As a socially underdeveloped kid, I’d spend my lunch hours in the high school library on those public desktop computers, reading fandom sites about my favorite video games. Computers always made sense to me. I even owe my entire career to them.

But the internet today feels wrong. Whatever the fuck kind of psychological warfare is happening right now with this Epstein stuff is too much for my mind to handle. I can’t do it anymore.

I will love. I will vote. I will support my community and continue to oppose this fucking nightmarish system we all find ourselves in. But I need to sign off.

Imagine the door closing sound effect when logging out of AIM.

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[–] whelk@retrolemmy.com 34 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Set up your own website if you haven't already, the indie web/smallnet/etc movement lately has been really cool to see and has made the internet fun again for me. Neocities is a great place to start if you need simple hosting, completely free and without ads

[–] hector@lemmy.today 3 points 13 hours ago

Wasn't there just a thing with search engines de-indexing neocities and the like so no one could find them from search engines?

Search engines are the achilles heel of the internet. The enshitification bottleneck. We need ways to access information around these large for profit companies, as they no longer are doing an honest, honorable job, but maximizing profit in a plutocracy governed by dictators and corrupt soon to fall to fascism liberal democracies.

[–] Paradachshund@lemmy.today 12 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

How are people finding these types or sites? I love the idea of it but I don't understand how any of it gets discovered.

[–] Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 2 points 11 hours ago

I just tell people to go visit https://soulism.net/ as often as I get the chance

[–] blah3166@piefed.social 10 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

this search engine finds smaller unique sites, lots of them happen to be neocities sites. Just refresh the page and see whats out there: https://old-search.marginalia.nu/search?query=browse%3Arandom

[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 4 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Neat, but this only makes me miss StumbleUpon. It was so freaking good for discovering niche websites. I have no idea why it shut down.

[–] excursion22@piefed.ca 1 points 5 hours ago

Oh StumbleUpon...thou shalt be remembered