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Recently I've been taking further, a few more radical measures in regard to my online presence.
I have deleted my instagram account;
I deleted my gmail, although I still have the google account for YouTube. (One day I'll get there)
*and I still use my university's institutional email provided by GOOGLE, so...*;
I switched to Signal for some friends and family communication. (Still stuck using WhatsApp, the entire goddamned country uses it);
My browser, Librewolf (a fork of firefox), has amnesia now. So, no history, no stored cookies except for a few exceptions. And I use an extension called ToS;DR (Terms of Service; Didn't Read) it it shows a score for how respectfully and fairly a Terms of Service of the site you are currently on is. I also use UBlock Origin, Privacy Badger and NoScript;
My OS is Arch Linux, and I don't have a single Microsoft or Apple service to my name;
Still, I have a few objectives for the future:
Getting a Pixel to use GrapheneOS (I use a really terrible device privacy wise... xiaomi);
Deleting my WhatsApp Account;
Deleting my Google Account;
Deleting my Discord Account;
Setting up my own home VPN and Email service with my own domain;
If the GrapheneOS thing doesn't work out for some reason, I guess a Linux phone will be the way to go...
This might sound 'too much', but my objective is to be as strict as Stallman when it comes to these things.
I think freedom is the freedom NOT to use these harmful things. I feel coerced to use them, socially and LEGALLY, all for the sake of convenience. I DON'T want to use them. So I'm stopping, little by little.
In my future I want to live outside of the city. I'll have my own patch of land and be fully independent in every facet of surviving and living. My water, my food, my electricity, my livestock. I won't have internet connection, I find it distracting. If I want to use internet or get books or get tools, I'll go to the city. And if I can help it, stop buying plastic and industrialized products, nature gives us most of everything we need. If we're responsible about it we can build almost anything.
If I'm buying something, I'll buy someone's service or build. Or books, or tools. (Tools: Computer and electrical components, or machining tools)
The internet has given us infinite knowledge. Might as well use it wisely.
In being more disconnected, I will be more connected to life.
refer to these sites:
Terms of Service; Didn't Read
Spyware Watchdog
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Roberta
Do you want to be isolated? To live alone?
I used to say this when I was little, but I have never thought of someone really putting this in practice.
This is WILD.
You should have seen my shocked face when I read this.
Oh, I just saw your comment about not wanting to be isolated, but to live naturally.
I thing the natural thing now is to be connected. You don't need to be 24/7 online, just be in harmony with your natural cicles.
Without internet you will be isolated whether you like it or not, I don't know many people who would like to be in a relationship (friend, date or only acquaintances) with a man without any kind of online connection.
by Roberta; ; Report
I consider that a filter lol
The people who matter will overlook that - I think
by Ernopolis; ; Report
And like I said, I just don't want my future land to have internet. To be like a sanctuary.
It's not too farfetched. Before 2020, I used to live outside the city without internet connection.
My whole childhood was on that grassy place and I am SO grateful to my parents for that. Doesn't mean I didn't use the internet, I just had to go into town to use it. And that made my usage more intentional and more exciting. Me and my siblings would go home and our minds would be teeming with ideas on what we would search for next, and what we could download to bring home. It was awesome.
But then we had to move, then the pandemic struck - we had to get WiFi for the house. We were very excited about that - we weren't used to it. But suddenly that high of having internet access was gone. It didn't matter anymore - it was taken for granted.
That is where my idea comes from - experience.
I won't be completely disconnected, just a little harder to reach. And I'm fine with that.
The world can wait.
One thing at a time.
by Ernopolis; ; Report
That's an interesting thought.
For you, who are already used to it, it must be easier. I hadn't considered that when internet use is more difficult, it becomes much more conscious and intentional.
Good luck!
by Roberta; ; Report
robbinscatter
I like your passion, it reminds me of "Walden or life in the forest" or "The Stranger in the Woods. The extraordinary story of the North Pond Hermit"
Yeah, except my thing isn't isolation. It's just living naturally
by Ernopolis; ; Report