I'm 25. I grew up on those block-shaped computer monitors, flash-animated video games, movies my dad pirated which ultimately killed some of our computers, and windows xp, 95, and the arrival of windows 7/8 and then 10 (against our will).
I also knew about RSS feeds, but dismissed them at the time 'cause I figured, I didn't need that.
I'm 25. I'm considering setting up my own web/news feed for the first time in my life. I don't know what's happening in my own city, Gatineau. Just yesterday I had a taste of my own medicine. In the wake of upcoming municipal elections, I realized just how badly I would not know what's going on in Gatineau.
I got two emails from my college about STO striking next week, which took me by surprise. Those emails informed me before the headlines did. The headlines came first, and I just never knew.
Apparently if I don't fork over all my personal data to the tech conglomerates such as Meta, I also just don't get to know, upfront, what's going on in my own city.
Instead, I have to go search for the news, across several platforms that aren't existing in a technological walled garden. This is incredibly exhausting, and I mostly do it on a reactive basis. We're having municipal elections and I'm barely scraping by on finding information on our own mayoral candidates.
I deleted my info off of the major social media platforms years ago. Resistance against these tech conglomerates then exists in the form of using older tech and software that isn't locked down today, despite companies trying to kill it, in order to still obtain information, news, and the freedom to just surf the web.
I grow tired, 'cause it seems like my own city remains uncaring of all this in a sense.
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