i hate phones

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If you rlly hate phones n shit u could always just ditch the apps or the phone entirely. I've moved onto a little brick phone that cant do anything except sms and I never used tiktok or insta or whatevs, just the 2016 era shitforms [shit platforms] like kik n youtube n stuff but it still sucked ditching them cuz I basically had nobody 2 talk to abt any anime shit so it was pretty lonely BUT I was also not on my phone at every point in my life that was even mildly boring or slow and tbh its a worthwhile trade

The days really do go by slower now and I feel more like I did when I was 10 and didn't have internet at all, let alone a phone. It's boring, I am missing out on pretty much all online interaction with other ppl my age and I cannot stress enough how boring it'll be but life isn't always supposed to be entertaining ig

I am making life harder for myself since I cannot check emails or my bank and shit like that on my phone so I have to use the computer, but everyone before 2011 made it work so surely you and I and everyone who hates what phones have turned into can certainly at the very least ditch tiktok.

If you really can't give up being part of the fandom then there's not much you can do abt it tbh, everyone is on tiktok. Even my dad is on tiktok, its the next big thing so you're gonna have a hard time substituting it with something with an incredibly small active userbase in comparison like spacehey, blips, neocities, newgrounds, even reddit which you shouldn't use its just as big of a time waster you can scroll forever on reddit looking at empty information DO NOT USE IT.

The jump from seemingly infinite new users and posts at for your viewing and interacting pleasure to having to wait a day or to for new stuff to happen on sites like spacehey and blips and newgrounds is jarring but its just how it is and how it was in the older internet, if you're willing to put your money where your mouth is and truly ditch stuff like tiktok then thats just how it'll have to be, the internet was an accessory to life and not something you could just "do" for multiple hours a day, it was actually really boring if you were on for more than an hour or two since you'd have already seen everything new that day.


Now, alternatives! I'm still kinda new to this whole hating the modern net thing, only really getting over it in 2022 but my biggest problem sites were youtube, kik and reddit [not posting on reddit god no, just scrolling] so here are what I use that have sorta replaced them

YouTube: Bitview. Pirating anime, tv shows and movies. These are pretty full replacements tbh, high budget stuff can be replaced pretty adequately with pirating stuff and bitview is for the more authentic lower budget stuff made by random ppl. People say they want old youtube and bitview is 100% what old youtube was, boring for the most part and not incredibly active but the odd gem can be found, you will NEVER be mindlessly entertained with either of these unlike youtube


Social Apps: You're kinda fucked. You need to use a gaggle of random socials to get a fraction of the, idk how to articulate this, the "meat" or the fullness of even modern day kik let alone tiktok. If you want the screaming into the ether like old twitter then Blips can do that, if you like scrolling thru random blogs and profiles like I'm doin then spacehey is alr for that and Blips to some extent, if you need some groupchat interaction then thats pretty tricky. Maybe IRC chats would be a decent fit for that? I'm still not sure exactly where to get that


Reddit: Any other old forum website that isn't reddit, I don't know much abt the alternatives so I cannot comment on any of that.


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