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LuckingFurker@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 days agoI didn’t say not to use it at all, I said to use it less. If you genuinely are unable to connect to other people without the Internet then I am truly sorry about your situation, but if it’s at all remotely possible that you could connect with people offline - even if you first meet them online - then I really urge you to figure out a way to do it because that’s how we break the power of these ghouls, we stop using “their” stuff for our needs
chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 days ago
Yeah fair. I used to go to more stuff but a lot of it is the thought of getting covid freaks me out and I don’t live somewhere with a lot of meetup groups around anymore. Honestly I’ve always seen it as the other way, where irl spaces (especially ones that take money) are run by hostile or incompatible forces, and the internet as something with more exceptions to that, even now that it’s become worse.
LuckingFurker@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 days ago
It’s certainly a tricky one, I feel like a lot of us have some trauma still from covid anyway, and the world is just acting like it has gone away. At least in the real world there are spaces outside that can’t be controlled that easily. I feel you on the meetup groups too, I’d love some local queer friends but I don’t know where the local queer people are meeting up. But the Internet is becoming the ultimate hostile space very quickly and sadly we need to either accept it or try and pull away now before it’s too late
Zombie@feddit.uk 4 days ago
The irony being the internet is where the left retreated when the real world became too hostile
youtu.be/Gr7T07WfIhM&t=2525s
If the time marker didn’t work in the link, skip to 42:10
LuckingFurker@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 days ago
And then the right followed us and we ceded that to them too. We have a long, horrible uphill struggle before us