This past year has made me really appreciate web transparency.

Between RealPage price-fixing apartment rent, ChatGPT and Stable Diffusion regurgitating human biases, Youtube sending people down the alt-right pipeline, and robots tossing qualified women and PoC job applications, I’ve come to view the inclusion of an algorithm in any service as a negative.

Compared to just one delightful year with Mastodon, which reminded me how the web used to be.

I want to be in control of what I read.