While we are gaining people who’re seeking refugee from the claustrophobic-like suffocation that is the surface web of social media. We’re taking some on the chin with knowing that some of those ‘refugees’ are assholes who probably have been a prick elsewhere. They just don’t care about owning to the problem.

Oh so you want to lazily make money.

Yeah, it’s called effort. Doing shit through AI is not effort.

Not really. But I am getting awfully tired of engaging in arguments and trying to explain things as best as possible, as my therapist sits there not understanding. That’s the part that’s exhausting me.

My start was all the way back when WebTV was around in 1996. I was using IRC-like chat rooms provided by Talk City. There, we had fun trivia games, some friendly chatter and vice versa.

Then, I moved on to MSN Chat sometime in the early 2000s. I would make my home there until the day MSN decided to make MSN Chats subscription based sometime around 2004 and I ended up leaving. These chat rooms were where I had some of my earliest periods roleplaying.

From there I would go to MySpace and I stayed there for quite a bit of time, felt like maybe 5 or so years before I just gradually lost interest. By that point in the middle, when Facebook got out of its college-only phase, I joined about a couple years after that in what felt like 2008-ish.

In 2007 also, I was in DeviantArt chat rooms and I was there up until 2014. I would join Gaia Online too in 2007 until 2016.

I didn’t start using things like Reddit until mid-2010s. I got into Second Life by 2013. Didn’t use Twitter until much later and left long before Musk even got it.

Oh and somewhere around my ventures of the 2010s, I did in fact hop into mIRC servers for a bit.

And finally by about 2023, I jumped into the Fediverse for the first time via Lemmy, discarding Reddit for good (not that it mattered because I kept getting shadow-banned anyways). I do have a TikTok but it’s only for associating with a friend on there. I’ve never regularly used AOL or Yahoo!'s chat rooms. I never had ICQ but I did have AIM, MSN and Yahoo!'s respective messengers. I’ve gotten into Instagram for a cup of coffee before bowing out like a couple days.

So, these days, all I use now is PieFed, Facebook, Second Life and Discord (if one can even call it social media).

Not for me.

The first thing I notice that goes on a mouse, is left click. When unintentional double-clicking happens. It’s frustrating as hell.

If they all had almost nigh-limitless amounts of money. So, they can just become Google.

I have zero confidence in voting for anybody anymore. The democrats help approve funding for the very department that’s been upsetting tons of lives for the past couple months.

Sorry, what’s this lesser of two evils thing again? One is passive evil and the other is chaotic evil. There are no winners.

Realize and understand that you are one person. You can handle only so much on your own.

This will all take a great collaborative effort on the shoulders of the many. So, you focus on you, until everyone is collectively together enough to do the right things necessary.

We are being distracted from the bigger picture.

The bigger picture being is, look at how much corruption is dominating us. We’ve been played, we’re continually being played and it seemingly looks like we’re always going to be played. The more time we take up to social media, to complain about something we absolutely disagree about with how things are ran and in hopes they ‘read what they say’. Well, that’s giving them more leverage because we’re screaming into the void and only getting just virtual pats on the back.

And it’s like, we KNOW what is wrong, we KNOW who is the problem and we KNOW exactly how everyone feels. But, we allow ourselves to be distracted by what? A Super Bowl half time performance? It’s like we’re all too busy looking for things to cope with than brainstorming how we’re going to get ourselves out of this mess.

The more we choose to cope, the more we’re allowing them to get even more of a stranglehold on us.