EVHasteMar 6

As age-verification bullshit becomes more common, I am determined to simply not participate in any service or video game that requires it. The day I see the prompt, is the day I leave.

Maybe the government’s hope is that I stop participating in society, but I assure you that I will not. I’ll find or build alternatives, and refuse to comply with bad law.

I hope you will, too.

And as a silver lining, maybe the weird internet we end up creating as a result will suck less than the current one.

Show threadWombatDhampir
@Haste I'm seriously considering going offline. I'm old enough to remember life before the internet, and sure maybe it's just nostalgia goggles, but it seems like people were happier then. I would have no problem going back to physical media and having IRL relationships. The promise of instant access has cheapened everything and made it disposable, including each other. And increasingly, the internet just seems like a sucking tube trying to devour the world whole.
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Show threadEVHasteMar 7
@VampirePenguin I can’t blame you for that! I will say though, that before the Internet was so centralized, it contained a lot of joy. And weird, single serve pet interest websites.