It feels like all the joy I used to feel from being an enthusiast has been completely voided as computing has become the modern vector for fascism and surveillance. I find myself recoiling from all online spaces, even independent and open source ones that I’d loved and supported in the past.
It’s been an exceptionally strange impulse to go from having an elaborate online presence to now feeling like the only acceptable way to engage with the network is to have as minimal of an online footprint as possible.
This especially hurts when it feels like an issue of skilling, where I know how to do certain tasks with computers, but have to teach myself for the first time the analogue alternatives that my parents and their parents likely already knew well.
How have you chosen to deal with it? Do you find yourself moving away from computing and the internet, despite formerly loving it as a hobby? Have you replaced things that computers used to do for you with analogue replacements?
I’m curious how other people are experiencing this.
ditch the marxist leninism and you’ll have a whole new view on everything in the world
it’s a cult and it’s broken your brain
computers are still just computers and still do vast amounts of good
heard of linux?
You don’t need to be a Marxist to see how AI-generated propaganda, surveillance economy, targeted advertising, social isolation, privatized censorship and global resource waste are bad things.
It has jack shit to do with Marx or Lenin. Sure, you can view it in the framework of Marx. Or you can view it, in an equally valid way, in the framework of Christian-inspired humanism, for example. Or in some libertarian invidiual-freedom-first framework. Still looks pretty shitty.
It took me a moment to figure out what you were on about. You actually think everyone on .ml is a Marxist Leninist? Do you think everyone on Blahaj is trans? Are you truly that much of a muppet?
Lemmy really has come a long way. I was starting to think it would never get this kind of low effort trolling.