PurpleGengarI left the algorithmic cage, and I'm not going back.
For years, I fed Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and Google my attention while they fed me what kept me scrolling. Endless feeds designed to hook me, data sold to the highest bidder, algorithms deciding what I should think about next.
Then I walked away. Mastodon. Bluesky. PeerTube. DuckDuckGo. AntennaPod. Simple tools that actually respect me.
The internet doesn't have to be toxic.