I saw this when the author originally published her experience in early 2019 -- this appears to be a rewrite of the same experience. As I've thought about it si

I saw this when the author originally published her experience in early 2019 -- this appears to be a rewrite of the same experience. As I've thought about it since then I've arrived at the conclusion that the title is roughly equivalent to "I tried to live without the Electric Grid." Certain services are omni-pervasive throughout our modern society, and in order to avoid interacting with those services you'd have to go to extremes at least as severe as the Amish people go to. I'm incorporating Mastodon into an app I'm building currently. It offers the precise functionality I need for an ad-hoc, time-limited social network dedicated to an annual in-person event. I'm not incorporating it driven by any political, moral, or economic reasons -- I'm fairly certain restricting myself by those tenets would require me to live much as the Amish do. I notice none of the trials I've read have tried to block communication with Cloudflare. I'm not opposed to Cloudflare's business practices personally but if centralization in general is what a person opposes, it would be logical to add that to the list as well.