I have been there too, but then I found solutions, hope, and excitement. Small tech provides alternatives to just about everything being done by big tech. Small

I have been there too, but then I found solutions, hope, and excitement. Small tech provides alternatives to just about everything being done by big tech. Small tech is run by you or your community using free and open source software. You control it instead of it controlling you. I have been free of almost all big tech for a long time and love the freedom from surveillance, censorship, and manipulation. The list of alternatives are long to list here in a post. The challenge is in marketing to get your friends and family onto small tech too. Because these solutions are free and don't take anything from you, they have no multi billion dollar marketing budgets like big tech. You learn about them by following HN, Mastodon, and Reddit. I am currently building out my own servers from home to host these services using Yunohost which makes it quite easy. I do like learning a lot of new things, but my motivation is to help my friends and family. This can spread one group at a time.