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does anyone else feel enslaved? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by Foresight@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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When I was growing up the internet was a place to be liberated from the world say what you want to say, be whoever you want and form genuine communities with shared interests. Now the internet feels like a tool to enslave the mind with identity echo chambers and any deviation leads you to being banned and blocked shunned and silenced within a void that is inescapable. Novel unique websites coded manually by hobbyists running servers for free in the commons allowing people access to the free flow of information under the banner of "information should be free" has largely gone away with corpratisation. I miss the days when the internet was populated largely by nerds aiming to make a better world not this controlled censored hell hole of profiteering.

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[-] SensualSass@slippy.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

@Foresight@lemmy.ml Not at all young man

[-] dotslashme@infosec.pub 1 points 1 year ago

For sure, I'm slowly quitting the www and moving more towards gemini instead.

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[-] gaytswiftfan@beehaw.org -1 points 1 year ago

"enslave"

are you serious with thos wording? and if everyone agrees with your opinions would you have still made this topic?

[-] Foresight@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 year ago

I still would of posted regardless

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[-] Whirlybird@aussie.zone -1 points 1 year ago

Now the internet feels like a tool to enslave the mind with identity echo chambers and any deviation leads you to being banned and blocked shunned and silenced within a void that is inescapable

This so much. Go against the narrative and you're banned even for breaking no rules. Reddit is in the endgame of this at the moment. The admins and their power mods decide on the narrative and if you don't play along and circle jerk you get banned, often from subs you have never even been to.

Unfortunately in my short time here I'm seeing much the same, though at least the bannings aren't at the same extent yet. Give it time though.

[-] Foresight@lemmy.ml -2 points 1 year ago

Yup exactly the word removed is censored, I could really do with a pack of fags and smoking a removed

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