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.

I guess I'll start pirating things like local news, weather forecasts, and garbage pickup schedules.

In the meantime, I'll continue to self-host what I can, de-couple from online services, and find alternatives to get information from.

I will just work around it. Unless they overhaul some very low level networking stuff, it will be hard to keep us from sites like hexbear

get a fake ID

I've been planing on going outside, this might just be the kick I need

I am going to go on the internet and tell lies about my identity

As online spaces start to demand I dox myself, I will remove myself from those online spaces (see: Reddit). If that means I ultimately leave the internet as a whole, then so be it.

I would like to think I would just stop using the Internet, or at least adopt a protocol like Gemini. How that would work exactly is hard to say, since the Internet is almost mandatory these days. Still, you have to be willing to inconvenience yourself to maintain at least some control on privacy and security online.

Tor Network.
I2P.
Autonomi.

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.

Yeah, I'll be fine without the internet.

Hard to say.

Sounds like the alternatives are to suck it up, leave the country for somewhere that isn't the case yet, stop using the internet...

There definitely is a line where requiring nonsense is more effort than it is worth. That line has already definitely been crossed by "news media". The quality of articles and interviews is so abysmal, that any hear say you get over three rebounds over social media is still somehow equal to the original bad source.

Social media is on the edge. I don't expect to have a serious discussion on facebook or twitter, that's why I don't go there. If it's easier to hang out in a bar near a library to hope someone worth talking to walks in or something like that. That will be the thing to do.

And also, that line will probably just never be actually crossed for internet platforms like amazon or alibaba. Shipping and ordering things online is absurdly convenient compared to go to physical locations and them needing to have the thing stocked, etc..

Most of (open source) software is already built in a way that could be taken offline completely. Internet is just a fast and easy delivery mechanism, but carrying USB sticks is extremely viable for getting code from A to B

And for entertainment, I can honestly just go back to reading books. It's not the total information super highway, but it would be something.

We will then need people like you to bring awareness about alternatives we will be able to shift to. That's probably how most of us ended up here

use anything and everything p2p by default

Probably it will not be all "internet" but some parts of it. Since I already live without many invasive services it shouldnt be big challenge for me. Obviously Facebook and Google already asks for ID everyone, so any changes at all. Probably its better do not exist on the internet than exist on castrated, polished, theocratic internet

The Internet is a bunch of Autonomous Systems running open protocols like BGP. Packets have no passports.

withdraw