Lol, I’d hate to see the post where your username checks out.😉

Firearms.

It was fairly inexpensive before the pandemic. But since it’s been a nightmare of price gouging.

It’s also one of those hobbies where buying one thing leads down a rabbit hole of spending.

I don’t feel like contributing for free to some portal run by a private company.

100%!!! The only thing I did differently was deleting all my usernames. I’m not contributing to all Reddit’s ad tracking, AI training, privacy invading nonsense.

I still go back to my favorite subs (r/gme_meltdown and r/buttcoin) to read only, but that’s it. Also there’s still tons of active BB boards (not on social media) for all my niche hobbies, soI really don’t have a reason to.

I’m not participating in that dumpster fire ever again. At best I’ll rip content from Reddit to post here on Lemmy.

I totally get what youre saying, but its going to be nearly impossible for you to live up to that if you use social media in any form.

The statement you just typed is probably going to be scrapped and used to train AI. The only way you can win is to not use the internet to interact with people.