What would it take for you to stop using the internet or go minimalist on the usage?

I think for me, the internet would have to be totally eclipsed by the enshittification process, for me to revise how I use it and what for. I’ve been online for 28 years now and I am beginning to slow down more and more as time goes on. I used to have been a community seeker, an explorer and a very curious person.

But as I have watched and learned where the internet was going and all of the struggles it has faced. While personally having dealt with my own fair share of troubles with it, I am sometimes under the impression about being more than ready to hang it up and stick to just the minimalist way possible when it comes to the internet.

And we’re talking, only watching YouTube/Netflix, coming on to Second Life to do whatever, only interacting with who I know and just making sure things are taken care of with online bills and such. Nothing more.

RGB3x3,

Mostly, I need to get off Lemmy. Social media is what keeps me on it.

pixeltree,
@pixeltree@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

My usage has gone down massively since I stopped using reddit. I use lemmy a lot less

Colour_me_triggered,

A boat and a fishing line.

Rhynoplaz,

It would take a lot just because I find EVERY other method of doing things so much shittier as it is.

I don’t think Google could do anything bad enough for me to decide to start writing checks and mailing them out each month.

Fiivemacs,

Google isn’t a bank…

Rhynoplaz,

You don’t say???

You did read the question before judging the answers, right? Because I feel like that would clear up a lot of your confusion.

stoy,

That depends on what you mean by “the internet”.

For a long time, I have thought about how you would create a new, physically separate internet, there is nothing stopping you from buying some old switches and routers and starting going full Nokia with them.

There is also nothibg stopping you from setting up new servers dedicated on the new internet.

There has never been as much cheap and decent networking gear on the used market.

Flax_vert,

Isn’t that what people in Cuba did

stoy,

Probably, I don’t know the situation off hand.

cucumber_sandwich,

But that’s just a net without the inter part

stoy,

No, it is the start of a new parallel internet, Internet 2 - Internet Harder if you will.

What I mean to say is that the internet is too usefull as a concept to just die, so if internet 1 dies, we have all the equipment to set up new internets to fullfill the need for digital communications.

Also, unless the vast majority of computers world get’s destroyed or we have no means of generating power, the internet won’t just die, it’ll change and turn unrecognizable, but it won’t just die.

thegreatgarbo,

I already actively avoid the shithole that is YouTube, as in I refuse to follow a link if it’s YouTube and Google another path for what I need. Stopped Reddit, my only social media app last June, and now only on Lemmy a couple, the times per week. 5-10 years ago I used to complain about how bad Google was getting, little did I know how truly useless it would get.

nytrixus,

You’re not kidding, with Google. Like fucking hell, it feels like the last time Google was remotely useful, was 15 years ago. That’s a long ass time it’s been since Google actually gave you results. Now it just gives results, but no relevancy. The first 3 links are sponsors, the rest of the links, are just either broken or places you’ve been to already where say if you were looking for something for research, then that part of the page doesn’t have what you’re looking for.

And it’s like, Google is so large of a company, you’d think they’d be so big as to care about sorting out it’s search engine so things like terms and certain words don’t collide with eachother right? Like, you google ‘Skillet’ and what do you get? You get more about the band named Skillet, than you do the actual pan skillet. Imagine if you’re someone who wants to know about skillet pans and that’s what you get, it’d be frsutrating.

Kolanaki,
@Kolanaki@yiffit.net avatar

Complete isolation from the rest of the network. As long as the network and protocols exist, and I have a computer, I can make my own website. Along with others who think the same way. The Internet can never really die except through total infrastructure collapse.

stinerman,
@stinerman@midwest.social avatar

Being retired and living on my grandma’s farm. I could do that today if I had the money. Just tune out everyone and everything. Watch broadcast TV and get movies from the library.

Kaiyoto,

I stopped using all social media besides Lemmy. In part I realized how much of it is used by influencers and companies to sell shit and it’s become worthless. On top of that, when I use Facebook I can barely find actual pictures when I attempt to catch up with family by looking at their pages. Once in a while I make an attempt then give up when all the bullshit gets crammed down my throat. The only reason why my Facebook still exists is the use the messenger to keep in touch with family that way.

I remember using Twitter to actually keep in touch with my gaming friends. Then they started with the algorithms. I used to use Tweetcaster. I stopped using Twitter entirely once that happened because it used to bypass those algorithms and the ads. I stopped using Reddit when Reddit is Fun went down.

Now I just scroll Lemmy. Even that is limited because of all the depressing news. Sometimes I get frustrated by the 15 reposts of the same article and I get tired of having to interact with them to get them to go away. I just don’t get the same reward I used to get when I looked through posts or scrolled through tweets of friends once upon a time. I’m just tired of the enshittification.

HurlingDurling,
@HurlingDurling@lemmy.world avatar

A new career mostly, am web developer

grasshopper_mouse,
@grasshopper_mouse@lemmy.world avatar

I’ll quit it when everyone else stops using it too

JoeKrogan, (edited )
@JoeKrogan@lemmy.world avatar

I am there already. I try to self host and my only subscription is a vpn. I of course have to lookup stuff from time to time but its so bad nowadays. The results are garbage or the algorithm feeds you far right nonsense because you accidentally clicked a video on the youtube homepage.

Then every second site wants you to do a captcha or make an account just to read an article… Get the fuck outta here with your account., instantly close the tab.

Then we have the abysmal data mining and constant breaches because these fucks dont want to pay for proper security but ok its because their pages says they use “military grade encryption” which is usually just TLS.

This is my only social media account. Specifically because it is non commercial.

/end bill burr rant

Revan343,

An EMP attack, probably

HubertManne,
HubertManne avatar

Ill do it for enough money to make me not have to worry about food, shelter, healthcare, and such if thats a requirement. plenty to do outside the internet. it will be wierd doing all my banking and stuff in person from the wealth I am given I guess though.

smort,
@smort@lemmy.world avatar

Nah you just call your accountant and have them do it. You got jet skis to ride.

HubertManne,
HubertManne avatar

good point

credo,

For the world to calm the fuck down.

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