Take Back Your Internet
Why am I adding this page?
I’m adding this page because I’m tired of the current internet landscape of slop content being forced down your throat, having the stuff you want to pay attention to be hard to find, and apps that constantly annoy you to get your attention.
Back before TikTok became popular, people could control their feeds and get the information that they were looking with no constant distractions. Now constant recommendation algorithms flood everything and it has become difficult to wade through an endless ocean of garbage to get to the stuff you care about.
Here are some tools to get back the control of your internet experience and learn about issues going on with your consumer rights:
Information About Companies and Services Trying to Take Advantage of You
Consumer Rights Wiki
Created by Louis Rossman, the Consumer Rights Wiki is a wiki that contains information about all of the different ways companies are trying to take advantage of their clients with awful practices. They also have browser extension that lets users of it know of bad practices that a companies are currently doing with their products (Chrome and Firefox).
Control Your Own Feed
Feedbro
Feedbro is an RSS feed reader extension for your web browser that allows you to not only use RSS feeds that different websites provide but also gives you the option to make feeds based on social media accounts.
Control Panel For Twitter (X)
In case you're still browsing the hell known as Twitter (aka X), then this is a must to have. It get's rid of the For You tab and instead separates the posts from shared posts in two separate tabs.
Twiiit
If someone has a Twitter(X) account that you want to check out but don't want a twitter account Twiiit can redirect you do different public instances of a service called Nitter. Nitter basically allows you to check different Twitter(X) feeds without having to sign up for the website. There is also instances such as xcancel.
Create Your Own Streaming Service
Jellyfin
Create your own custom media hosting server to host different Movies, TV Shows, Music, Books, Photos, Live TV and more. It includes SyncPlay, which allows you to share your media remotely.
Control Your Interfaces
Stylus
A browser extension that allows you to customize different website interfaces by editing different CSS elements. You can create your own, or use different user generated styles to customize the look and feel of different websites you might use on a daily basis.
Create Your Own Live Stream Site
Owncast
While it requires a bit more technical know-how, Owncast is a open source software that allows you to host your own personal live streaming service with it's own custom chat features, customizable interface, and has software documentation to help you get started and personalize your own streaming site.