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As we all know to absolute death by now, social media has become too big, it's overly personal with its constant demand for your time and data, yet it's also completely impersonal in the sense you can only express yourself within the boundaries set by those in charge. By their boundaries and algorithms specialised for profit, they're funneling us into bite-size, easily malleable catagories of personality, for the sole sake of their marketing schemes.
Over time I came to this realisation, and later on during a search for greener digital pastures I stumbled upon The YESTERWEB.
The YesterWeb was a collective that brought back the ability for each internet user to fully express their own creativity and uniqueness,
which in turn brings back power to the user.
The ideal goal of the movement was to irradicate the "centralised" web entirely.
You may have noticed, this page you're reading is hosted by "Neocities", which is a very simple way to create your own home page for free. (REAL free. I ain't selling you sh*t!) There are other services you can use too, this is just the one I chose.
Setting up your own personal page is a great step towards reclaiming that innovative and purposeful internet we were originally promised.
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