The rot is deep. Avoiding it often requires you to become a hermit.

You try convincing your tech unsavvy friends to change services, your boss to let you use linux, and all your favorite communities not to use Discord, Google and YouTube. Last of all; good luck finding that one obscure widget you need right now to make something work without using Amazon.

I promise all of the above are harder than they sound. It shouldn’t be harder; but it is.