As some of you might reckon, I ran a number of privacy-friendly services, front-ends for big tech platforms: the already defunct Nitter for Twitter/X, Jouwbuis for Youtube, Redlib for Reddit and Koekel/Searx for search engines. But no more. It has become way too much of a constant cat and mouse game and the instances had more issues than they were actually available for use.
This will free both some time and mindspace on my side, that I like to throw at the Fediverse and actually building stuff that is the future, rather than fighting big tech that won't be around anymore in a couple of decades.
It has been a wild ride - but the time has come to step up and do the right thing - contributing towards humanity, rather than wasting it on ductaping the shit of big tech gazillionares together.
Thank you for the fish - and hoping we'll meet again in a brighter future without big tech silos.