First Post!
I've been blogging for over 20 years now, but this is my first post here.
How I got here is a long story. It's one I'm planning to tell in the coming days. Tl;dr today I discovered the Web as I remember it from my teen years, the Internet of the 80s/90s, still exists - away from the invasive hot mess that is Big Tech. The Internet that was full of tiny personal websites and blogs that weren't crammed with analytics. The weird Internet.
I have missed Weird Internet so very, very much.
I'm currently on a quest to wrest all my data away from the Big Five (Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta, and Microsoft), plus Wordpress (where I've blogged for nearly 15 years). I know I can't get complete privacy from them, but I can stop giving them direct access to me and my data. And that feels like an important start.
Eventually I plan to host my own blog/website, but for now, I'm cool with a service run by one human with a name who does it because it matters to other humans. Thank you, Herman.
Hi everyone!