I think you are confusing soulless with dead. It's more alive than ever yes but it has become monotonous. The original feeling of individuality of websites has been reduced to the monotonity you see when you visit different websites. For example, Twitter, Reddit, Instagram or even their federated alternatives like Mastodon and Lemmy (I haven't used Pixelfed) are designed in a similar way to that users feel familiar and don't get turned off from using the website. This is just one example I can think of now.
I think you are confusing soulless with dead.
I'm not. By "alive" I mean that from where I sit, the Internet is a vast, colorful tapestry. There's plenty of individuality, diversity and originality in it. It's just that it's not given to you on a silver platter.
Imagine being a person living in a skyscraper, rarely leaving it because all the things you require are situated on one of lower floors. What isn't there, you order to be brought to you, conveniently. So you complain that the world became souless, monotone, repetitive, not like in the old days, when you were living in suburbs and had to travel on your own to find the service needed.
I'm not living in such a skyscraper.
Maybe I need to expand the pool of sites I frequent. Any recommendations?
1st of all, if you're into politics and can't resign from it, replace the sites you know, with those that deliver news in as neutral tone as possible, with as little toxic inclusions as possible.
AXIOS is one.
2ndly, use Feed Reader like INOREADER and consider sbscribing to one of its non-free plans to get the tools that filter out news by keywords, phrases or similar variables.
3rdly, prioritize what you actually need, instead of stuff that might be "somewhat" relevant to your interests. For example, if you have some good, reliable source of news/content on video games, then skip the rest - they tend to cover same games in similar time span, so you won't miss much when you reduce your feed from 10 to a single site.
I don't follow politics but yes I do use a RSS reader. Also you suggested US centric stuff and I don't live there.
I think you are confusing soulless with dead. It's more alive than ever yes but it has become monotonous. The original feeling of individuality of websites has been reduced to the monotonity you see when you visit different websites. For example, Twitter, Reddit, Instagram or even their federated alternatives like Mastodon and Lemmy (I haven't used Pixelfed) are designed in a similar way to that users feel familiar and don't get turned off from using the website. This is just one example I can think of now.
I'm not. By "alive" I mean that from where I sit, the Internet is a vast, colorful tapestry. There's plenty of individuality, diversity and originality in it. It's just that it's not given to you on a silver platter.
Imagine being a person living in a skyscraper, rarely leaving it because all the things you require are situated on one of lower floors. What isn't there, you order to be brought to you, conveniently. So you complain that the world became souless, monotone, repetitive, not like in the old days, when you were living in suburbs and had to travel on your own to find the service needed.
I'm not living in such a skyscraper.
Maybe I need to expand the pool of sites I frequent. Any recommendations?
1st of all, if you're into politics and can't resign from it, replace the sites you know, with those that deliver news in as neutral tone as possible, with as little toxic inclusions as possible. AXIOS is one.
2ndly, use Feed Reader like INOREADER and consider sbscribing to one of its non-free plans to get the tools that filter out news by keywords, phrases or similar variables.
3rdly, prioritize what you actually need, instead of stuff that might be "somewhat" relevant to your interests. For example, if you have some good, reliable source of news/content on video games, then skip the rest - they tend to cover same games in similar time span, so you won't miss much when you reduce your feed from 10 to a single site.
I don't follow politics but yes I do use a RSS reader. Also you suggested US centric stuff and I don't live there.
But yeah I get your point