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  • Is this a real trend or like that time everyone abandoned Twitter for Mastodon?
    by blfr
  • Yeah, i think it's not only social media platform. I used to read a lot of bad fiction on internet (sometimes it was _really_ good, but most of the time, not), and it took a large part of my time (easily 2 hours a day, plus one hour of reading paper book to help me fall asleep). Nowadays i have the impression almost everything is AI-enhanced. Shorter sentences, quips for no reason, lack of details. It makes dialogs as tense as action scene, and i'm just tired.

    I'm quitting. Slowly, but surely. Some days i don't read anything now. Even when i'm bored in the train, i don't necessarily read anymore. Instead i'm in smaller communities, often on discord, sometimes on whatsapp/signal, almost always one where i've met people IRL first, and i must admit, i feel somehow a bit better. Not that i ever felt that bad, i am usually happy, but weirdly it feels like a new benefits of AI.

    by orwin
  • I stopped using Reddit after Apollo got blocked, well, I had it side-loaded for a while too with AltStore, but that stopped working
    by nickradford
  • This sort of post is ridiculous ... the vast majority of people are not "packing up", and people are constantly arriving.
    by jibalt
  • Lately I’ve found myself thinking about BBSes for the first time in ages.

    Online used to feel like an actual place.

    by bunderbunder
  • [citation-needed]

    People don't loudly announce they're not going anywhere and not changing anything, of course you only perceive the ones who do otherwise.

    It doesn't mean they there's a wide spread trend.

    by nickelpro
  • Everyone says they are packing up. But most of the people I’ve seen complain either are still on the site they complain about, or left briefly just to realize that other sites aren’t any better and came back.
    by eggbrain
  • I spent a lot of my time on the internet because I was lonely in my teens and these connections were exciting. I learned software dev because I was a nerd that loved math and loved the concept of building software, having complete control on how it's done. That was the concept I signed up for.

    Software dev today is sitting in front of a prompt bar, sometimes checking the IDE, sometimes some DevOps, but nothing about it excites me anymore. Even hobby projects are dull because they're done in mere days. Choosing not to use LLMs has little to no reward imo.

    I'm slowly moving away from software dev because the rose tinted glasses I saw the job as are shattering

    by ramon156

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