Technically Good is a blog/website/newsletter project that focuses on:

• 🔒 user privacy
• 💻 alternatives to billionaire-run platforms
• 🗺️ digital sovereignty
• 💩 de-shittification
• 🤖 ethical AI regulation

Its mission is to:

• help people understand user privacy, especially on large, enshittified platforms;
• suggest more privacy friendly, and/or decentralized, alternatives to those large, enshittified platforms; and
• advocate for ethical AI regulation and digital sovereignty.

In a nutshell, it defends and helps rebuild a web that serves users - not advertisers or billionaires - and advocates for using our tech for good.

On this blog, you will likely find a mix of:

• long, well-researched articles detailing eeeeeverything wrong with A Thing ™️;
• applicable posts with practical tips for folks new to the world of privacy/digital sovereignty/decentralization; as well as
• short, unhinged bless-this-mess memeing, which... that's the way it is. it's just part of it, ok.

And you never know which one you're going to get!

Technically Good is run by izzy.

About Izzy

Izzy is a senior data analyst by day, and runs Technically Good by night. She has long advocated for ethical tech: honest analytics, privacy, interoperability, meaningful AI regulation, decentralization, and anti-surveillance design.

At one point, Izzy got a PhD in psycholinguistics, a really neat field that researches the intersection of language comprehension, psychology, and cognition. She then taught data analysis and language science at a Canadian university before moving into industry.

Izzy shows up in the community by volunteering in the disaster relief, municipal politics, and urban transportation spaces.

And now, she's carved out this online space because simply sitting around and watching it all go to hell in a handcart wasn't cutting it anymore.

You can get in touch with izzy, or follow Technically Good, in multiple ways.

Is this Monetized? Do you get Kickbacks? Ad Money? Free Stuff?

No.

Technically Good is a completely volunteer-run blog and website that I run in my free time. I don't get any kickbacks, from anyone - no products, no services, nothing. As you may have noticed, your ad blocker gets to take a well-deserved break when you are visiting Technically Good: There are no ads on my site or any of my socials, anywhere. Nothing is ~monetized~.

So, no. I don't get anything pecuniary or material from this, in any way. The benefits of running TG are, to me, the following:

• I get to share glimpses into how the internet, and many mobile apps and platforms, are constantly enshittifying, and provide insights into why this is very problematic to folks who are either already familiar with these conversations, or folks who don't really even know what a browser is. I also get to suggest useful alternatives. This is incredibly important to me.
• I get to interact with smart, interesting, like-minded people.
• I get the warm fuzzies 💜 when you all share and updoot my posts.

Attributions & Tech Stack

• Technically Good runs off of the excellent BearBlog 🐻.
• It uses a Catppuccin colour theme.
• The cover/header image is a glitched, edited version of this excellent photo by Marvin Meyer, via Unsplash.