I want to be left alone (2024)

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179 points car | 2 comments | 03 Sep 25 01:11 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source

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rootusrootus ◴[03 Sep 25 01:25 UTC] No.45111255[source]▶

I feel this so, so much. The internet was so much better before it got commercialized and polluted with non-stop politics, hype, influencer crap, etc. I just want to be left alone, I know what I want, I don't want you to try and force it on me, trick me into it, etc. I want to have a functioning email account my friends can use where the messages won't get drowned in a sea of spam. I want a phone that only rings when someone I know calls.

We've created such a shithole, a perfect mirror of society I guess.

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1. awesome_dude ◴[03 Sep 25 01:59 UTC] No.45111499[source]▶

>>45111255 #

We were just lucky to be early adopters, it was inevitable that what we loved, and told others to have a look at too, was going to be loved to death by people looking to make a buck

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2. rootusrootus ◴[03 Sep 25 02:11 UTC] No.45111570[source]▶

>>45111499 (TP) #

Yes, I agree, in retrospect it was inevitable. I was lucky to be coming of age (and especially naive) at the right time, and so I didn't even see that inevitability. It just looked like an unqualified good to young me.

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