/lit/ - Literature

>>14680769
as a literal autist I find it hard to communicate with normies, I honestly hate this site 99% of the time and consider it a huge waste of my time. However, it seems like everything else is somehow even worse: panopticism malignant narcissism, the algorithmic standarization of all thought and forms of life, the steady innervating drone of 24/7 news and culture war outrage bait content engineered to maximise cortisol secretion engagement. Twitter was fun around its apocalyptic peak circa 2016, but certainly not anymore. Nonetheless I have been able to find few prized moments of communication, glimpses of an outside and an other world, like remnants of the cyberspace heterotopia that never was, or at least, what i imagine the anarchic internet of the early 21st century was like. Where are the networks of autodidacts and esoteric shitposters spinning disposable identities and DIY hypercultures? Or at least, where can I go if I want to meet New Friends From All Over the World(tm)?

>>14680867
Too often, I end up engaging in compulsive /pol/ posting. I don't really believe in any of it, it's really a way of expressing anger and self loathing, growing up online left me with a fragmented sense of identity, marooned at end of history, realising all ideology is cope and powerless to affect . It's frightening to realise the anonymous postings are a truer reflection of your 'real self' than your meatspace interactions

>>11867591
Stewart Brand, musty old copies of the whole earth catalog and issues of WIRED magazine from the 1990s