I don’t have experience about that. Every time I’ve been invited to a group, I’ve removed myself immediately lol

I’d be depressed if I had to endure the darkness of a Finnish winter

Funnily enough, winter is my favorite time. I love going for winter hikes etc. Its so peaceful and quiet.

TBH in principle I’m ready to give up on the Whatsapp boycott, it’s just so costly socially

I just use good ol’ SMS with the people who don’t have Signal. Though thats like one SMS message per year or so…

I like to think I’m not bitter and miserable but I suspect you’re not either - just introverted or on the spectrum

Perhaps I’m not bitter. I don’t know what I am. Tired, frustrated to the point of being done with everything and everyone. I’m not sure what to call it, depression is a major part of it. Introverted, for sure. I’m a introvert even in Finnish standards lol.

The only way to “win” here is by playing the ethics card. But alas that argument is just not well understood by most people.

That’s how I decided to drop Whatsapp. i explained to the people I felt I owed a explanation, that I’m not comfortable with the privacy issues and being a play button for big American corporations. They understood it, didn’t care. Meh. Fuck them, I guess lol.

Hear hear.

Its the only website in my adblocker whitelist.

My electricity comes from hydro, wind, solar and nuclear. I do have a petrol engine car but luckily its a Peugeot so the engine is broken and I have no plans of fixing it. My city has excellent public transportation. I have a bicycle. Also my grocery shop is 2 minute walk away.

I’m pretty lucky.

After deep consideration, I’d say you were the rare “Angel (she/her)@piefed.blahaj.zone” type student

Its such a weird thing to do. Especially when you click the translated link and it opens a page that is not translated. So if they think they are “helping” people who don’t know the language, how exactly does it help that they translate the title and half a sentence in the search results.

Who would have thought that burning a shit ton of fossil fuels in order to bomb oil and gas infrastructure would be bad for environment.

Dog I hate this world so much.

I guess its good that you didn’t give a click to wsws.org, no one should. But you’ll be pleased to hear that the title is bullshit

I look at it a bit differently. If I’m not important enough to my friends and family for them to install a easy to set up app, then I guess I never was that important to them.

I left facebook in 2011, lost contact with most of my school friends, army buddies etc. I left Whatsapp around 2016, lost contact with most of what was left. In my signal there’s 6 chats open. Two of them are my sisters, whom I rarely talk to. One of them is my weed dealer. The rest are friends, I guess, but even those chats haven’t been active since January 6th (I just checked) lol.

But I know I’m a bit different, I’m a bitter, miserable and grumpy man who doesn’t mind being alone. I know most of the people are not like that and would go mad without contact with other people. For me its more healthy to be away from these parasite apps and services than it is to keep up with everyone.

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I love Ecosia because I love trees and will keep using them until I can afford kagi or something.

But one thing that drives me through the wall… If I search something in my native language, because I want results that are in my native language, google/bing (which ecosia uses) decides to translate reddit posts for me and Ecosia slaps them to the top of the results. Its rather annoying.

Do you mean the picture of the woman, in an article talking about how this particular woman is AI generated?

No. It is not a real picture.

I just wished they would be smart enough to understand how stupid they are.

lol what a lad, good ol’ Keith.

I had no idea poking was still a thing. I thought it disappeared like a decade ago. I haven’t been in facebook since 2011 lol

Yup, that too

The most difficult part of it is… talking about it makes me seem like an incel :D I always feeli like I need to make it extremely clear that I’m not unhappy, bitter or whatever. Its completely my decision and I’m fine with it. I think there’s people who just cant understand or believe that someone might be fine being alone.

Yeah I mean I don’t pretend I don’t feel lonely and wanting of affection at times. But I dunno, I’m such a miserable prick anyways, no need to subject anyone to dealing with me on a daily basis :D

Microslop, one stop slop shop.

Haha. I’ve completely given up.

To be honest, it’s quite freeing. I’ve always been quite independent, to the annoyance of all my girlfriends. But no need to worry about that anymore.