Dos and Don'ts of current times
- Buy your own domain and establish your online presence.
- Start your own website (as quirky or cool or cringe as you want) and grow it:
- Get involved, participate in forum conversations, it’s what keeps them alive.
- Fight for your rights:
- Privacy.
- Anonymity.
- Self-hosting.
- Don’t use Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft, Reddit, Google.
- Ignore social media, it has sucked up everything cool about the internet and made it absolutely terrible.
- Don’t neglect your hobbies.
- Do not use centralized means of communication, like Whatsapp, Discord, etc. Instead use Internet Relay Chat (IRC) or XMPP.
- Don’t mindlessly consume, create instead.
- Own your content, never rely on cloud providers to host your stuff, everyone should host stuff themselves and help build this wonderful network of human beings.
- Consider using open and libre hardware (and software that will facilitate the open-ness of your hardware): Purism, postmarketOS, Framework, coreBoot, Linux, RISC-V.
- Support the artists and pieces of content you love, build a library that you’re proud of, one that you’re happy to open up in the morning.
- Ignore propaganda and don’t participate in censorship.
- You are a person, focus on the relationships and the things that make you happy and improve you. Focus on your health, give yourself space to think, learn and reflect.
- Try to be kind, everyone you meet is probably fighting a hard battle.
