Overview of things I posted here (Mega thread)
A. Cool pics I like with sounds attached

I just learned that the bill for mastodon's server are paid by the community. So I am NOT uploading videos or photos here anymore.

Honestly, I wont mind if the mastodon team have advertisement here and there just so that this platform can become more sustainable.

C. Cool tools I found (Alt things)

Unhook Extension - make youtube on browser less stimulating by removing the recommendation feed, shorts, and auto play.

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/unhook-remove-youtube-rec/khncfooichmfjbepaaaebmommgaepoid

Unhook - Remove YouTube Recommended & Shorts - Chrome Web Store

Hide YouTube related videos, shorts, comments, suggestions wall, homepage recommendations, trending, and other distractions.

Stayfree - the best free and synced and have so many useful features. both app and extension

kiwi browser - allows you to run unhook extension on your mobile

got shadow banned (dont know why but ... I just searched it. got removed:
https://github.com/kiwibrowser/src.next)

you can technically remove the stimulation of youtube (both mobile and desktop) by turning off the watch history and pausing the history feature as well on settings

tho it doesnt remove the bad recommendation when watching a yt video

If you want to remove twitter digital footprints, you can use this:
(note, its not the best. It sometimes re-like the posts as well but yiu can just stick in deleting your tweets)
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/x-twitter-auto-cleaner/gpddblelbllagfcnhoadnfdbeanfmndi?hl=en
X (Twitter) Auto Cleaner - Chrome Web Store

Easily clean your X (formerly Twitter) account by deleting tweets, unlinking likes, and removing reposts.

cara.app is a cool platform where people can create and share their creation without ai taking advantage of it