Amazon is Dead. Reclaim your Attention on the Small Web!

Video Description

When AWS’s US-EAST-1 region went down last week, half the internet broke — including my Siri weather. I don’t even use AWS. I host my own servers. But that outage reminded me of something deeper: even if you run your own hardware, your attention still lives on their infrastructure. The modern web isn’t really a network anymore. It’s a few corporations quietly deciding what we see, what we click, and what we depend on. That’s not capitalism — that’s techno-feudalism. So in this video, I explore how to take back a little control: • Replacing your search engine with tools like Kagi or Marginalia • Escaping SEO-driven content that fights for your focus • Rediscovering the Small Web — a slower, human, non-algorithmic internet Tools in this video marginalia-search: https://marginalia-search.com/ kagi: https://kagi.com/ indieweb: https://indieweb.org/ 🔗 Links & Resources 📩 Newsletter (weekly homelab + Linux deep dives): https://nathanlaundry.substack.com/ 💻 GitHub (configs + scripts): https://github.com/NLaundry 🎥 Live streams Thursdays 4–6pm ET: https://www.youtube.com/@UCxsYJ_S4jVayHx828AtQjig Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/LifeandLab #attentioneconomy #smartphoneaddiction #digitalminimalism #AWSOutage #aws