I use Facebook only for Marketplace, because it has completely replaced Craigslist in my area. I sell custom-built Game Boys.
I check Reddit for news and hyper-specific hobbies that don’t really have a place on Lemmy, but I don’t have an account.
I use YouTube often, but lately I’ve completely blocked shorts and I’ve started downloading all the videos I’m watching to my hard drive so I can stream them through Jellyfin instead.
No you’re absolutely correct. I’ve found it harder to have faith in other people as much as I did when I was a little younger, because of the state of the world and the lack of movement on the part of people around me. I think part of the struggle I’m having is that computers aren’t a hobby one engages with in a vacuum. If someone was really into knitting and all of the sudden half the knitting community got into fascism for some reason, that person could reasonably go on knitting in the comfort of their own home without feeling like it is in any way contributing to or condoning those fascist knitters. But with computers, half the hobby is the joy of networking! Of these shared spaces created by tying computers together in new and interesting ways. Which unfortunately have now created a wicked gestalt surveillance apparatus. Hell is other people and their computers?
Goodbye is a contraction of God be with ye
Vi lernas Esperanton! Kiel vi faris?
It works really well for me actually. Every time that mobile app begpost comes up it’s a great reminder that I shouldn’t even be looking at Reddit at all. Cut down my doomscrolling on my phone immediately.
My web browser lol
I’ve loved following VR the last few years, watching developers figure out in real-time what makes a good game in a headset, but it really does feel like it’s really on the way out. Moss is one of the big successes of the VR years and it’s now being excised from the medium. People are going to look back on VR in a few years time as a really weird niche of the games industry, like gaming’s very own Galápagos of ideas that never took over the mainstream the way people thought they might in 2016.