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A case for self-managed media consumption

Profit focused social media and the advent of the algorithmic content feed have been a disaster for the human race. If you still happen to use an algorithmic feed regularly, I invite you to ponder

• a) how much of your time it takes without your explicit permission
• b) what thoughts it makes you think that you would have not thought otherwise and
• c) whether the result creates a positive impact on your life, or simply serves as a convenient distraction/ cure for boredom.

If you happen to not love where that pondering has led you, that’s why I’m making this post.

This isn’t going to be a “burn the entire internet” post, but rather one that hopes to re-contextualize the way you perceive it, and hopefully change the way you use it so that it works for you, not the multi-billion dollar corporation profiting off your attention and time.

Do remember as you read this that nobody is perfect. Everyone’s going to have a limit whether that’s time or technical expertise, or something else, and that’s perfectly OK. This kinda stuff isn’t linear either. Sometimes you do a bunch of things, then nothing for a while, then undo some stuff, then do some more. As long as you’re making your best effort to move toward ethical and beneficial usage, that’s what counts.

The Indie Web: An Introduction

Did that last section give you crippling depression about the horrors of modern technology and our collective overreliance on them, as they’ve slowly but surely co-opted our support systems and sold us convenient alternatives, forcing us to slowly but surely normalize the fact that all our time spent on the internet ends up on 3 companies’ servers?

Surfing the Indie Web

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