Greetings Din, welcome to the right place and prepare to step into the world of those that understand these things, even better than I.
I embarked on the very same journey a few years back and have asked many of the same questions you pose. I support and encourage others to support the Purism Concept for Digital Comm. If we don’t, alternatives to what is proposed by BIG TECH, will be only for those who are very savvy.
In this community you will find many folks far smarter than I that have taken many steps towards preserving the essentials of what I have come to understand as Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. It once was the American way, now its become more of a mission to try to preserve it, than a basic fundamental right to privacy.
Its no longer a given, just as true “Freedom” is not free.
A price must be paid, due diligence, ingenuity, research, and a willingness to change how you do things.
You have a choice, Blue Pill, or Red Pill?
If your sticking with Fakebook, Windoz, Googled and the rest, it has nothing to do with Purism, but everything to do with you. Like someone else said, if you don’t play the game their way, you can write the rules, our way.
Dump “ISM”, take a walk on the wildside of “The Open Souce Community” . Follow a few rabbit trails, meet a few Penguins, and you might just meet Alice along the way, or end up in the “Land Of Oz” and have Toto pull back the curtain for you…
Welcome to Purism, where we get pure about the “isms”
Totalitarian-ism has no tolerance for anything outside of their Matrix-ism.
We have no tolerance for the Matrix, the “delusional illusion” to control.
It’s all Pure_BS
Cheers!