This article is very uncomfortable to read. https://www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgive-them/
Never Forgive Them

In the last year, I’ve spent about 200,000 words on a kind of personal journey where I’ve tried again and again to work out why everything digital feels so broken, and why it seems to keep getting worse, despite what tech’s “brightest” minds might promise. More

Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At

@r343l IMHO modern tech allows democratization of control over others.

Democratic (enlightenemt) values were intended to support individual agency in opposition to feudal values of ownership and control by a few over the many.

I also only use FOSS and am currently swimming hard against the current of corporate control of every aspect of my participation in society. It is exhausting.