Yeah, like others have said, avoid everything new (at risk of becoming insular, if you care about that), try to hold on to what you can and move forward in spite of it all. Its an unfortunate thing, but Time does not seem to care for our feelings.

Slight tangent, but I dont know why some people take it upon themselves (even on this site, we've had a couple threads like these before) to try and convince people who have a longing for the past that things weren't that good, that they're looking at things like the old internet through rose tinted glasses, etc. Which is just funny to read on heyuri, I thought trying to bring back aspects of the old internet back one of the reasons behind this site's existence.

I think its important to have these threads once in a while because it reminds us of how good things were, and to give us sort of a goal to aim for, you know, like that one quote some might have seen on a poster in their elementary school classroom: "Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars!".

Yeah, I suppose it can get old, this longing for the past stuff, and maybe having a direct return to the old internet to then have things stagnate there might turn out to be really boring, but to try and say that things weren't better then than they are now is just a complete lie.

Personally, I think things like that are part of a grand psyop to get you to accept the shittyness of today's world. But I am prone to paranoia and schizotypal thinking, so... grain of salt.