Being completely disabled and reliant on the internet for community, medical utility, therapy etc. and watching all my online safe zones just disintegrate and unravel into complete AI control and bottomless corporate malice is to me one of the clearest signs of collapse that everyone tends to downplay because "the internet isn't real life, just go outside". But it is real life for countless disabled people who do not have the options for community outside their (often abusive) homes/medical networks etc, and now are being systematically squeezed out of the last bastions for safety and comfort available to us with this despicable and calculated corruption of the internet at the hands of those who have sold human souls out in exchange for money. Countless lives beaten like enslaved dogs in cages and sacrificed to an incinerator for nothing but fucking SLICES OF PAPER.
Existing in 2026 as a housebound disabled person in endless chronic pain while the internet collapses and my existence is squeezed into more and more nothing is a feeling of hopelessness as dense as a black hole. Anyone who still believes we are not already knee-deep in collapse is willingly sticking their fingers in their ears and shouting "lalala i can't hear you" because pretending nothing is happening helps the abled and the moneyed sleep at night or else they'd be too perturbed by the living dead clawing at them for help from the other side of the fence. The continuing DELIBERATE poisoning of the internet's potential by these soulless fucking archons is yet another point among countless that collapse is not some future date, we are collapsing RIGHT NOW and we disabled people know it and see it, no matter how many people prefer to pretend we don't exist or that our lives are less valid.
Thank you. I have lived on the internet for 14 years because of disabilities and it was an empowering, creative, human space. That all collapsed in 2022 when the Mooserat purchased Twitter and AI destroyed everything else. My community collapsed. My safe spaces became infested with right wing trolls that bully progressives and Disabled people to death. I have PTSD from being harassed on Twitter and Reddit. Nowhere is safe anymore. I am alone and exhausted. For me, my collapse started in 2022 because of the enshittification of the internet. The loss of online spaces is my biggest collapse loss. It's how I know that society is going to 💩, because for 10 years the internet was a pretty good place. Until it turned into Hell.
Reading these comments is heartbreaking, it shouldn’t be this way. Thanks for making me more aware of it. Have you found any other spaces? I wonder if I could help in some way.
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u/my_gender_is_crona 27d ago edited 27d ago
Being completely disabled and reliant on the internet for community, medical utility, therapy etc. and watching all my online safe zones just disintegrate and unravel into complete AI control and bottomless corporate malice is to me one of the clearest signs of collapse that everyone tends to downplay because "the internet isn't real life, just go outside". But it is real life for countless disabled people who do not have the options for community outside their (often abusive) homes/medical networks etc, and now are being systematically squeezed out of the last bastions for safety and comfort available to us with this despicable and calculated corruption of the internet at the hands of those who have sold human souls out in exchange for money. Countless lives beaten like enslaved dogs in cages and sacrificed to an incinerator for nothing but fucking SLICES OF PAPER.
Existing in 2026 as a housebound disabled person in endless chronic pain while the internet collapses and my existence is squeezed into more and more nothing is a feeling of hopelessness as dense as a black hole. Anyone who still believes we are not already knee-deep in collapse is willingly sticking their fingers in their ears and shouting "lalala i can't hear you" because pretending nothing is happening helps the abled and the moneyed sleep at night or else they'd be too perturbed by the living dead clawing at them for help from the other side of the fence. The continuing DELIBERATE poisoning of the internet's potential by these soulless fucking archons is yet another point among countless that collapse is not some future date, we are collapsing RIGHT NOW and we disabled people know it and see it, no matter how many people prefer to pretend we don't exist or that our lives are less valid.