Tootfinder

I know it's easy to get down on the web, but I've seen so many cool projects and blogs and personal sites and attempts to (re?)build a more human web free of corporate social media and the enshittified part of the web...
It's giving me hope that we can build an Alternative Web. The People's Web. Free of AI bullshit, free of advertisements and tracking and all that crap so many of us just do not want.

Reading algorithmic feeds is a crazy thing to do: abandoning control over your own influences to a robot programmed by advertisers to manipulate you?
Madness.
I will not allow a robot programmed by advertisers and surveillance capitalists to determine what I read.
I don’t read any robo-feeds and don’t recommend anyone else does.
But people do:
Top five highest reaching smart phone apps:
All designed to harvest data from your phone, three of them owned by one creepy billionaire, and most people use them by looking at a robo-feed suggesting to them what to read and watch or filter.
I don’t use any of them.
I watch some Youtube, but not though their app. Uninstalled that from my phone as soon as I got it. It’s an awful downgrade of just playing in a browser page. I subscribe to some channels there in my RSS reader like a boss. Never watch what their recommendation algorithms suggests.
I tell them what I want to watch, I don’t let them tell ME what to watch, and frankly I wish all those videographers would start a peertube instance or something instead of posting their work on a corporate surveillance site.
I say you should avoid that algorithm stuff, it’s crazy manipulative.
But people should be free to do what they want.
I’m free to block Facebook! And I do: and I encourage everyone else to do so too.
Edit your DNS, block their domain names. Do it.
But if governments or corporations have the power to mandate those choices for everyone, it will go badly.
Prohibitions always do.

Malaysia blocks access to Grindr's and Blued's websites and says it may engage with Google and Apple to curb the LGBTQ dating apps in the Muslim-majority nation (Anuradha Raghu/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

not an April fool: I’m at a coffee shop in front of a busy bus stop where 3 lines stop, and six firefighters just blocked the entire bus zone with their truck while they wait for espresso drinks. Already two 49s and a 14 have been unable to pull to the curb. An older person with a cane had to hobble into the street to board the 14.