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Content is King? - How it sucked out the joy of personal websites (jeena.net)
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[โ€“] pavnilschanda@lemmy.world 22 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Same here. At this point I've effectively become an internet 'hermit' and avoid social media. Sometimes I'd even avoid Youtube because of how overstimulating the content are. I don't know how useful this will be for my wellbeing though, since I don't even 'touch grass' either. And yes, I'm autistic so the current state of the web is borderline intolerable for me.

[โ€“] UNWILLING_PARTICIPANT@sh.itjust.works 6 points 10 months ago

Good for you, I'd consider my online "diet" to be the same, although I do count lemmy and masto etc as social media, just not quite so pernicious as the mainstream corpo ones