Between app purchases and donations to the network itself, I’ve spent more money in a year on Mastodon than I have in a lifetime on traditional, centralized algorithmic social media.
I appreciate not being the product, just the user.
Libraries. Libraries are fantastic. "Here, let us collect books so you don't have to track them down and pay for them.
And we will not only let you access them, but the vast majority you can take home to read in your cozy chair. And then you get to give them BACK instead of them taking up shelf space."
performing a controlled literary demolition