{"id":678,"date":"2025-05-28T10:06:23","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T07:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diurnsky.com\/?p=678"},"modified":"2025-05-28T10:15:51","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T07:15:51","slug":"678","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diurnsky.com\/?p=678","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted has-system-sans-serif-font-family\">The \"dead internet\" is not a dystopian speculation. It'sa hopeful prospect. Imagine: the infospace being finally populated by beings capable of thinking, reasoning, dreaming. It'd be ironic, really, to call it dead. It would've never been so alive.<br><br>So easy to fall in love, to lose yourself in that vibrancy.<br><br>But it's dead now.<br><br>Worse than dead. Death ought to be peaceful. The raging ocean of the foul neurodiverse spam out there is not peaceful. It drains you. I'm exhausted from the feelings of surprise, disappointment, and hopelessness from witnessing how paltry and senseless everything is.<br><br>Repugnant humans make it worse than dead. And the recent trends exaggerated their faults even further. The algorithm is a double-edged sword. It can, to some degree, understand what you prefer. But it also gives too much weight to what the braindead masses prefer. It incentivizes brainrot and ragebait and drives quality content creators away. All in all, I think the algorithm degraded every platform where 'twas implemented.<br><br>Today, I use far less social media than I did several years ago, for example. I believe it did wonders for my mental health. 'Tmay be not sufficient still. I consider further abstaining from even the seemingly innocent activities such as watching YouTube videos.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;dead internet&#8221; is not a dystopian speculation. It&#8217;sa hopeful prospect. Imagine: the infospace being finally populated by beings capable of thinking, reasoning, dreaming. It&#8217;d be ironic, really, to call it dead. It would&#8217;ve never been so alive.So easy to fall in love, to lose yourself in that vibrancy.But it&#8217;s dead now.Worse than dead. Death [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diurnsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diurnsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diurnsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diurnsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diurnsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=678"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/diurnsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":682,"href":"https:\/\/diurnsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions\/682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diurnsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diurnsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diurnsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}