korendian

Just finished my bachelor's at 39. I know people have finished a lot later than that too.

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I got lucky on tinder and found a fellow introvert with near identical interests. I would not rely on that though, hobbies and friends are the best way to meet people, especially if you can make friends with extroverts that can be wingmen or do hobbies that involve a lot of one on one time like table top gaming or dancing. It takes at least a few years of active looking if you are well groomed and know what you're looking for.

The vast majority of users are not the architects of the internet or the fediverse for that matter. It's like telling people to just stop using money. Sure, people could do it if they want to escape capitalism on an individual basis, but one person or group of people not using money does not eliminate capitalism or fix the issues that others will continue to deal with.

True, but I had hoped that the fediverse was a life raft from the dying internet at large. Seems that hope was unfounded, and the virus has spread here as well, with no sign of it being repelled.

You're the only person in this thread that has been a condescending dickbag, so I'm seriously not sure what you're on about at this point.

That sounds simple enough, but the fediverse is not popular yet with normies, and we're already seeing it happen. Also, how does one keep normies away from something exactly?

Yea, that's my big concern. Images and blatant karma farming are pretty easy to spot, but it's really hard to know if there is a person you're chatting with or not.

Uh, what? You responded coherently to my original post, and now suddenly nothing I say makes sense? Are you bipolar or something?

That puts a lot of responsibility on users to solve the problem for themselves, which as you say, they never will. Seems like the fediverse is going to be destroyed by AI in the near future just like the rest of the internet has been.

The internet is the sole source of my social life. I would have no friends at all if it didn't exist.

I just installed a minimalist phone launcher. It creates a much more focused and less distracted phone experience. Also, not exactly new, but new to me, I switched from windows 10 to Ubuntu Studio. The experience is night and day, and I wish I had done it sooner.