I’m with you. I hail from the days of dial-up BBS. I’ve gotten to watch online devolve from a genuine community of people that often disagreed but knew how to talk about it and could trust that a human sat on the other end.

I’ve been stripping elements from my online life and working my way towards reclaiming some semblance of an internet that betters my life; no corporate social networks, no lowest common denominators at either extreme end and no psychologically-tuned engagement triggers.

We will never get an honest Internet back but like you, I can reclaim my use of it on my terms.