I've been working my ass off trying to disconnect from the toxic internet. Getting away from the algorithmic garbage, non-stop corporate trends, and bot-like post optimizations.

I'm so close right now from completely removing Google from my life and things are starting to feel somewhat normal. A time when the internet was about creation and discovery, instead of commoditization and production.

Almost there, gotta keep going!

@Ossi what search engines do you use? Have any apps/software you recommend?

@kadence I've been using Startpage as my search engine for the last year and it's been really useful! If you don't need to search for recent stuff you can add "before:2023" to the end of your search terms to cull out the flood of AI results.

For apps/software, I have a page on my website where I list the stuff I've used and think work well. My whole website is still a work in progress though so things will change over time.

https://ossi.games/useful-software