Lately I've been seeing many more people reading books in public.

Yesterday, 5 books on one bus.

Newspapers and magazines stay losing. Zero zero.

EBook readers occasional.

Is it some performative fad?

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[–] 21 points 9 months ago (5 children)

Nah.

A lot of people are realising that all they do is look at their phones and have started to actively seek out other things to do. It's a good step and I strongly recommend it. Even if you're not replacing phone use with something productive, just disconnecting is clearly helping people. Buy a DVD player and hit up thrift stores for some movies or TV box sets, read a childhood favourite book, play a video game that isnt connected to the internet. Its great.

I read The Vegetarian recently. And some Mao.

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  • [–] 14 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    Do you think nonstop barrages of ads and AI slop have something to do with this? People doomscroll on their phones because it is easy and convenient, but when it is just a frustrating nightmare of meaningless slop it probably makes people want to do literally anything else.

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  • [–] 8 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    I think its a mix of several things. Mostly that you spend an hour on the internet and feel worse afterwards. The internet used to be something you looked forward to using

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  • [–] 10 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Yeah, there's a reason Hexbear is basically 90% of my internet usage these days, this is the only place I know that feels like the "old internet"

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    I don't think it's like the old internet. It's just a good part of the new internet. There was never anyplace like this before.

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