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submitted 9 months ago by _number8_@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

reddit is shit and makes me annoyed, twitter is shit and makes me annoyed, tiktok is shit and makes me annoyed, pure news sites are boring, cracked is dead, google doesn't work anymore, lemmy is only memes and news and fairly slow

i feel like i used to be able to sink into an activity on this machine, but now i just spend 5 minutes somewhere, the algorithm runs out of content, i get annoyed and go somewhere else, same process happens. i feel like i have amnesia, i used to enjoy this but i have no idea how.

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[-] I_Miss_Daniel@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Facebook, Voyager, Google News with a daily 30 minute limit for each.

YouTube with no limit but usually multitasking.

Email, whatsapp, other work stuff.

Podcasts sometimes while driving / working.

ABC listen sometimes while driving / working.

[-] kindenough@kbin.social 2 points 9 months ago

Kbin, online shopping and streaming music or video. The time surfing the world wide web for me is over. Most websites I used to visit have anti woke folk and other asocials now. It's depressing...

[-] xkforce@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

I tutor, lead a dumb mobile game clan of around 100 people, read, listen to music and watch youtube videos.

[-] grasshopper_mouse@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

YouTube

Lemmy

NPR

Discord

I spend more time sorting my weapons and gear and creating loadouts on a 3rd party app for Destiny 2 than I actually spend playing the game

Pinterest

Recipe hunting on various websites

Still browse Reddit but less and less every day

Never look at Twitter unless something else linked to it, and I don't have an account

Never look at Instagram, I don't have an account

Facebook once a week at best, though only on my PC, I deleted the app from my phone ages ago

[-] LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Lemmy and Discord mostly. I watch a lot of YouTube. I also spend days going down Wikipedia rabbit holes.

[-] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Lemmy, YouTube. There's so many good videos on YouTube that I don't have time to watch. Searching up how to do something online. There's always some Linux programs I don't know to use. Currently I am also watching The Computer Chronicles on archive.org. There's also some sort of hidden parts of online you may not be realizing are there, though I haven't spent basically any time there yet. For example Gopherspace. Gopher is an old protocol that used to compete with HTTP. It still has some people using it, just for fun. Of course, you won't just find those gopher holes as the protocol isn't supported by modern browsers. You can use Lynx.
You can use Veronica 2 search engine here: gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/1/

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I'm here. Or in a game. Or watching YouTube. Sometimes I am here while in a game watching YouTube. It's actually funny that I have been in VRChat, scrolling my phone using scrcpy while watching stuff on a screen on the virtual wall. Like I'm just doing what I would do without VR, but as my fursona in a sick space station.

It has the same vibe of watching a sim of yourself watching TV.

[-] Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zip 2 points 9 months ago

I watch YouTube and twitch(without log-in). I mostly watch penguinz0 videos and valorant esports on twitch.

[-] Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Currently spending a lot of time on Lemmy. Best wholesome time for me online is Pixelfed tho - it's relaxing to just sit and look at beautiful art people have made. Especially with some nice music in the background from something like @radiofreefedi@musician.social (comfy channel). In fact, having a beer and a joint to go with it makes for a really nice time too. Overall though I'm starting to feel a bit like I've 'done' the internet and trying to get real pleasure from it is clutching at straws.

[-] Tehdastehdas@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I still end up on Quora too much. It was a great place to learn until about 2018 when the investors really started making decisions, taking Quora away from the mission towards ad revenue at any cost to the community. The enshittification hasn't damaged it to the level of Yahoo Answers yet, but there's nothing to stop the slide.

My ability to shape my feed took the biggest big hit when they dumped the topic ontology 2023 and went with bots all the way. You used to able to follow extremely specific topics and tag questions with them so that your feed was all gold. No more - my feed is full of "viral" now.

How Quora Died - by Nitish Pahwa on Slate.com

[-] iliketurtles@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

Yahoo answers was a lot of fun when it was newer!

[-] Nightsoul@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Boune between here Twitter and Facebook ik ik Thats only if I don't have access to my computer then i tend to watch yt and shows or game

Also do a lot of reading

[-] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

I bounce around from here to YouTube to checking my email to playing with my collection of spreadsheets.

[-] Vex_Detrause@lemmy.ca 1 points 9 months ago

Lemmy, YouTube watching ethoslab and hermits.

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