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If you need your id to access internet: not use it anymore, selfhosting go brrr
If you need your id for all content-sharing websites like social media or microblogging: return back to good ol webrings and static websites. Can't kill the web on its core principles. No algorithms, pure passion and creativity.
Honestly, back off. The more tech literate I get, the less tech I want in my life.
This is exactly how I feel too! As a "cloud engineer" (even the titles are pointless) the last thing I want to do is to have anything to do with tech whatsoever, even if I like my job
Tor (with bridges enabled) intensifies
I'll avoid the ID demanding sites. Feels similar to how I never got into iPods because I didn't like iTunes.
Dark web
Any other alternatives to freenet and tor? Every single alternatice counts
I've gone long years without using any social media associated to my identity, as many others do, and i'll eat my cooked shirt if I start thinking, "hey sure why not let me into this shitty internet".
I'll be fine without using the internet if it comes down to it, at that point it'd be a liability. Dinosaurs think they can control the internet which is a hilarious proposition in the first place.
exacrly this. i have been preparing for this for a decade.
I lived great before the Internet, I'll live just as great after it's gone.
Save £24 a month more than I do now
Touch Grass maybe
grass.exe not loading
He is probably using Linux, he needs grass.sh
Needs to be root as well :p
Sudo -u root grass.sh --touch
Pixel phone running Calyx, VPN, physical maps, second name, second phone number, leaving most platforms, trying to take my people with me
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Self host even more.. Use Gemini even more
Thank you so much for this. It opened me to a whole new world! <3 I think we need to spread the knowledge about this more.
I'm so glad you're enjoying it! 😁
Using gemini makes me feel like I'm in the 90's again just discovering the internet. It's such a nice feeling using it, its like you're interacting with people again rather than applications
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The commercial web that I use that might require ID would be for payment processing etc. My bank knows how old I am. I can and will pay bills directly through my bank instead of using their portal. Or they can explain to me in writing why they don't want to take my payment. Just about everything else is optional.
TORTORTOR!!!
FREENET TOO!
As of now I only visit a handful of privacy respecting sites on a regular basis. For all others I use web archive links rather than actually visiting the site.
Go Luddite
Will make own services and tell f*ck-off to those who will request ID :P
I don't use any "big brother" services. At work, it's a different story, I guess.
I wish that the internet was removed from every day reality. Or at least I wish it wasn't so invasive and obligatory.
Burn the grass
Create a local mesh for the community.
Use waifuAI to upscale my old p0rn collection sleeping deep inside that odly named directory for 20 years and think about the good old time of emule and razorback.
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