@mariellequinton what!!!!! thats so cool

@johnefrancis wait that is crazy work. No bc I've done exactly those things AND i'm starting on the de-Googling as well (for many reasons, but the straw on the camel's back is a friend's gmail getting age-verify imposed despite being in California, and google search no longer taking search parameters into account in search queries).

Thank you for the recommendations for RSS! I'm actually looking a little more forward to setting this up!!!! :D

@InternetOfTofu not the electronic newspaper, but physical newspapers, maybe. I remember years ago my mom and I were able to get Gatineau news from a news publisher in our email, and then when I had to change emails, I found out they no longer used email to send out their newspaper lmaaaooo.....sad

I'll keep it in mind for physical newspaper. I'm not sure if Gatineau has something local I could pick up, but I did have the thought cross my mind later after I posted.

@Philip Maybe I'll find something similar on this side of the bridge? Good to know Ottawa Lookout is 90% free. There's also Centretown BUZZ !!
I don't agree with both cities merging but that's me.

@Philip Not sure! I encountered a random news publisher I had not heard of over in the Aylmer shopping mall, but I don't remember the exact name now, and I can't exactly afford a subscription 'cause I'm not working at the moment :")

@auxonic IT DOES ! I like my timeline chronological, and the very high character count does wonders for my love of reading.
But in terms of real-time events... yeah. that's the issue I'm facing lol lmao even. it feels like I'm always 5 steps behind.

Repost 'cause I set the wrong interaction parameter 😭 I'm screaming it from the rooftops, surely I'm not the only one who sees anything wrong with how this is all going????

I'm 25. I grew up on those block-shaped computer monitors, flash-animated video games, movies my dad pirated which ultimately killed some of our computers, and windows xp, 95, and the arrival of windows 7/8 and then 10 (against our will).

I also knew about RSS feeds, but dismissed them at the time 'cause I figured, I didn't need that.

I'm 25. I'm considering setting up my own web/news feed for the first time in my life. I don't know what's happening in my own city, Gatineau. Just yesterday I had a taste of my own medicine. In the wake of upcoming municipal elections, I realized just how badly I would not know what's going on in Gatineau.

I got two emails from my college about STO striking next week, which took me by surprise. Those emails informed me before the headlines did. The headlines came first, and I just never knew.

Apparently if I don't fork over all my personal data to the tech conglomerates such as Meta, I also just don't get to know, upfront, what's going on in my own city.
Instead, I have to go search for the news, across several platforms that aren't existing in a technological walled garden. This is incredibly exhausting, and I mostly do it on a reactive basis. We're having municipal elections and I'm barely scraping by on finding information on our own mayoral candidates.

I deleted my info off of the major social media platforms years ago. Resistance against these tech conglomerates then exists in the form of using older tech and software that isn't locked down today, despite companies trying to kill it, in order to still obtain information, news, and the freedom to just surf the web.

I grow tired, 'cause it seems like my own city remains uncaring of all this in a sense.

#ottawa #Gatineau

@trecartin I'm glad to have come across this post before the shut down occured :face_holding_back_tears:

@bikeottawa I wanted to but I cannot afford it at the moment 🥹. I'm deeply sorry!

@bikeottawa Hello! Do I have to be a member in order to attend?

@TAVCreations damn, that owl looks so much smaller than the crow LOL
i can see why it was a bit dazed trying to escape all that and then flying into a window!

oh god my mastodon client app updated and its not....great . it was already buggy before but this is both sluggish and everything is spaced out weird

if anyone has any suggestions for other mastodon clients im all ears 'cause wtf is this!!!!!! 😭

@stephanie 🤣🤣 i get it LOL

@stephanie oh ok true LOL

@stephanie don't forget it. they also states those "aren't real words" as if language was set in stone; Quebec is headed down a shit path. We have an inaccessible healthcare system, I'm more than ready to vote the CAQ out of this fucking province

@laineysluck id kill for an extra jacket or warmer pants at this moment lmaoo

@stephanie it's beautiful omggg

@ottaross yep! exactly that. I relate.

@stephanie are you still buying canadian as much as possible? I stumbled across a petition to the House of Commons on making product labeling more clear/explicit