I’m a developer trying to use free, open, decentralised systems and networks. Fedarated services and open source devices don’t have gatekeepers that put ads in the content you’re trying to view, charge rent or spy on you and sell your data (or all of the above).
I use Fedora on my coreboot PCs and Ubuntu Touch on my phone. I use the Fediverse social media, XMPP chat and IceCat browser.
I read news articles and listen to podcasts via RSS. I listen to local, offline music that I own. I use taxis without an app and pay cash. I read (paper) books.
Hopefully as big tech enshittifies further and “AI” accelerates that enshittification, more people will switch to connecting to each other directly rather than via enclosed, rent-seeking systems and services. If so the future internet may start to resemble the good old free, open, hobbyist internet. In the pre decent search days (which we seem to be returning to) each of us would record links to sites and services we like and share with friends and family. Here’s my links