My internet existence feels so small right now. Reddit is very impersonal now, feels like nothing but bots and reposts. Hacker News isn’t particularly interesting. Shacknews chatty died out. My Discord server has been a bit of a ghost town for going on a year now, and the AI Horde server is pretty quiet. Other forms of social media, I’ve cut out of my diet basically entirely. I just don’t have, like, random people to talk to or feel like I’m talking to even if I’m not (via lurking interesting conversations). I sit down at the PC during a minor fit of boredom and it feels like… why am I here? At the computer, specifically, I mean. Or, why is my phone in my hand? I guess TikTok is, unfortunately, kind of fun when I am sitting on the toilet. Anyway… the internet feels lonely. AIM gave way to Google Talk which gave way to… nothing? I had a dream recently I loaded up an old AIM client and a bunch of old usernames I hadn’t seen in years was there. Was that a dream? Man… the internet used to be so interesting. Now it’s all silo’d away in Discord servers and Telegram rooms, where the censors are less likely to come for it. Where’s all the cool nice weirdos at?