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.

  • whelk@retrolemmy.com
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    1 day ago

    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

    • BlueDemon@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      2·
      10 hours ago

      My most recent lil obsession/project has been to see how doable getting the start of a community mesh network going would be. I want the internet to live up to its decentralised promise but that means actually decentralising it.

      • ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        2·
        2 hours ago

        I just got an OpenWrt One router to start setting it all up. I think once I get everything working well, I will try to find another nerd in town and get an antenna.

        • BlueDemon@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
          1·
          17 minutes ago

          Great plan!!

          I’m doing similar, I’ve got a router to start playing around with and I’m waiting to order another. Once I’ve got it working my immediate goal is free WiFi for the flats I live in with gateways through mine and my friends isp, using different lines for redundancy while figuring out how to get more people on board.

          I’m in Wales but if you’re nearby it would be cool to link up and discuss at somepoint

      • whelk@retrolemmy.com
        2·
        10 hours ago

        I’ve been seeing a lot about this stuff and I really want to get into it, seems really cool

        • BlueDemon@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
          1·
          1 hour ago

          It looks like meshtastic/meshcore is the easiest entry point depending on what has more nodes in your area, as far as I can tell it’s just messaging but the barrier to entry is really low if you wanted to play around with it

    • hector@lemmy.today
      7·
      1 day 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
      16·
      1 day ago

      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.