L3ft_F13ld!

For people complaining about ads and popups, try LibreWolf/Mull with uBlock Origin in medium mode.

This setup can sometimes break sites, needing some slight intervention (once per site), but I never get these popups people complain about.

Sites that absolutely refuse to work are rare, but it does happen. In that case, just have a backup Firefox or Chromium browser.

Here’s hoping you’re right.

I hope you’re right, but I feel like you’re putting too much faith in the average person.

I’ve heard of people having similar experiences on Mastodon as well. Seems like these smaller communities of early adopters tend to simply be more active and pleasant to interact with.

Then try subscribing to communities that have something of interest to you.

Consider Endeavour.

It’s the app the comment above me was recommending. I just wanted to make that clear and show that it was available outside the app stores as well.

Drip is also available on F-droid.

Not sure if you’re on desktop or mobile. On mobile I’m using Mull with uBlock origin in medium mode. I don’t see any videos in the article you linked and I don’t see most of the annoyances many people complain about.

This is a rather strict setup that can break some sites, but over time you can tune it to make most sites work without intervention on future visits.

I recently had to move, because my previous instance is shutting down. I got to keep all of my settings and the commubities I follow. It also kept blocked accounts and communities, but not blocked instances.

ETA: Comments were not transferred and I’m assuming posts won’t be either.

I agree with spreading it across multiple smaller servers. Sadly, this is my third account after my previous instances shut down. So, there are some risks on that side as well.

Multiple options available depending on what you want. Duckduckgo for Bing results. Startpage for Google and Bing.

I’ve been quite happy with Startpage for a while now and there are multiple options depending on just how badly you want to avoid Google.