Staying away from most modern online communities (especially social media, forums and 4chan-style imageboards) feels so good for my mental health. But at the same time it feels so lonely. My problem isn't with normies only but with self-proclaimed geeks, otaku, social outcasts etc that have been so toxic and obsessed with politics and stupid dramas from early - mid 2010s and after. And talking with them is often like talking with robots. And we got to the point that even AI bots talk, feel and behave more human-like than actual human. Which is why I laugh with people that act paranoid about Ai technology "replacing human".

have you tired getting off the fucking computer and bringing over friends from meatspace into your personal websites

>>3854
yeah, leftists are really toxic

>>3942 Didn't read the original post. It's staying away from the internet which feels lonely, not the internet itself. >>3854 The real world feels like a wasteland. I'm in the big city going to university almost every day, been putting myself out there for years, but if you don't use social media you barely exist. People will respect it if you tell them, say something asinine like "bro social media is actually so cooked, my attention span is cooked bro", but they'll shut you out anyway for not being on it. I cope with this by coming online and talking to strangers who are more like me.

I hate geeks and otakus too, mostly for being obsessed with media such that you can't really talk to them about other stuff. Performative nerds irritate me as well. They are shallow and predictable, typically not true tech guys but just high school gamers who mistook their sitting in front of a computer for hours a day for a capacity to write computer programs. The absolute flood of this demographic has caused universities to water down the standards of undergraduate computer science until it's unrecognizable, but hey, they're making bank off these suckers. I was in a class the other day, two guys next to me were giggling about how bad 'Microslop' is (they both run Windows). Then one starts talking to me unprompted about my Thinkpad. Truth is, I bought this laptop because I was poor and just looked for the cheapest one at a pawn shop that still had it's PSU, but John Reddit here saw a few pictures of some guy with a big jaw in B&W photoshopped next to a Thinkpad, so now he worships them. He struggled to write ten lines of assembly code.

I don't have to stay away from those communities, I'm banned everywhere. No idea how people even manage to stay on those communities. Real life is not even an option either because, if you look around everyone is constantly staring at their phone.