I am lucky to have a workshop to do these things in. But I suspect there are physical-domain hobbies that almost anyone could do, without needing much space and tools.

I find I feel better about “digital” once it is a smaller component of a wider life.

Perhaps an unintended consequence of governmental fiddling will be a return to an approach more like dialup days, where you sat down for a contained amount of time, used “the internet” then stopped and went back to doing something else?

If something like this does happen then it is hard not to think that economically there will be a movement back towards what was the case back then.

Put bluntly, if you have fewer people using the internet for less and less time, the money walks away.

I wonder if the government(s) forecasted for this. It’s a big chunk of the economy at several layers.

Perhaps treating the Internet more like we did back in dialup days might even be healthier?

If this thread sounds pessimistic and negative, I don’t intend it to be so, at least not entirely. By way of example, remember when Twitter got ruined? It had been getting slowly worse for years then it got fully ruined.

Note where you are reading this thread now. Better than Twitter ever was, isn’t it? And all because of something we almost all were deflated and upset about when it first happened.

There is room for cautious optimism.