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The internet is distracting, but as you can guess not using the internet–as idealistic as it may sound–is probably not possible. So I’ll show you in the following my ways to make the browser–and with it the internet–experience much more comfortable and free(er) from distractions that would waste your precious time.

Intro

Since a longer time now there are many instant messaging (abbr. IM) services around that have risen to popularity exponentially. You got Matrix, Discord, Slack, etc., but none of them are able to give you space to have bigger thoughts and conversations.

In the following writing I’ll argue that not all messaging needs to be instant, or at least less often than we currently tend to use it.

In this post I will only advocate, not make a tutorial on anything.

Introduction

Digital autonomy for me means being in charge of the services I use. At some point I’ve felt like I am over-relying on others – mostly big cooperations – to take care of the tools that I use throughout the day. Initially that didn’t feel “wrong” – and it’s still what the average person does – but over the time I’ve gotten more and more uncomfortable with that reality.

It ended up feeling like a loss of control and not even for any good reason other than a bit of convenience.

Looking at it from an utilitarian perspective it appears like you need to weigh the convenience and ease of use against autonomy, privacy and control. The weight of these individual points you have to declare yourself to find out what the decision should be, but for me it weighted heavily towards the “I need to get rid of some systems I can’t control” side.

Making that decision brought me to a solution, just hosting the things I want to use myself, or use it hosted by a trusted entity that at least doesn’t have a business-model based on user data.

Hello stranger, let me lay down for you what the purpose of this website is supposed to be.

To start up of this blog it will be useful to populate the site, to do this I came to the conclusion it would make the most sense to publish writing for 30 consequtive days.