I removed Apollo from my phone and deleted both my Mastodon and Twitter accounts over this past weekend and it feels like my brain is rewiring itself every time I pick up my phone.
I have been shocked by how much this shutdown has affected my regular internet browsing. Google is very broken, and Reddit has, like for the 20% of people mentioned in that great "Google Search is Dying" essay you linked, become a lifeline, and a way to get high-quality results that aren't SEO spam.
I removed Apollo from my phone and deleted both my Mastodon and Twitter accounts over this past weekend and it feels like my brain is rewiring itself every time I pick up my phone.
I have been shocked by how much this shutdown has affected my regular internet browsing. Google is very broken, and Reddit has, like for the 20% of people mentioned in that great "Google Search is Dying" essay you linked, become a lifeline, and a way to get high-quality results that aren't SEO spam.
It becomes clear that hippies are smarter than algorithms when it comes to humans who want to thrive.