This is my very first post on lemmy since leaving Reddit a couple of years ago. For the past few days, I've dealing with feeling overwhelmed by the enormity of the worlds grief by making a project of unplugging my life and mind from data mining overlords that have offered me convenience and immediacy in exchange for my privacy and mental health. I'm migrating from Gmail to Proton, from Chrome to Vivaldi, and I'm getting my head wrapped around how decentralized/distributed social media platforms work. All of this is meet and right so to do, but if I'm being honest with myself, I'm just soothing myself with something I can feel in some control over. I miss the old internet. Hopefully, in some small sense we can have it back.