• Move your reading off the algorithm. Put your sources in a feed you control, such as an RSS reader like NetNewsWire or FreshRSS, rather than a feed ranked to hold you.
• Put a wall around the extractive apps. Use a timed blocker such as Freedom or News Feed Eradicator, so attention is something you spend rather than something spent on you.
• Learn the tricks from the inside. Play a short inoculation game like Bad News once; it measurably raises resistance to manipulation, though the effect fades and is worth refreshing.
• Move one device toward open software. Try a de-Googled operating system like GrapheneOS, or keep your notes in local-first tools that store data on your machine rather than a vendor's.
• Move your money to something member-owned. Join a credit union, owned by its members rather than its shareholders.
• Practice enough. Name one number you will stop trying to maximize, and hold it inside a band instead.
• Repair before you replace. Fix what you own and favor things you can open and mend; repair guides like iFixit and new right-to-repair rules make it easier than it was.

• Form a pod around one real need. Meet it through reciprocity rather than charity, the way mutual-aid groups do.
• Decide by consent. Use the one-page method below, so a proposal passes unless someone names a real harm.
• Pool one thing the group governs together. A tool library, a shared skills list, or a time bank in which an hour given earns an hour to spend.
• Keep the data local and the door open. Hold your records where you can leave with them, and meet on open protocols no one owns, such as Matrix.
• Give hard disagreements a home. When a question is about values that will not converge, do not force consent; open a standing, named venue to argue it in the open, with the minority view protected, and let it stay live rather than be closed.
• Give every body a sunset, and a way to compost. Set an end date when you start a group or role, and decide in advance where its tools, funds, records, and people go when it ends, back to the shared pool rather than scattered.
• Inoculate together. Run a prebunking session for the group, sharing the manipulation techniques to watch for, so resistance is built before the next wave rather than after.
• Share the care. Make the unpaid work of care and maintenance visible in the group and divide it on purpose, rather than letting it fall by default on whoever volunteers least.
• Back up the commons. Keep a redundant, local copy of the records and knowledge the group depends on, and check now and then that you can actually restore from it.

Prefer tools that are open and auditable, and that let you leave with your data. Where the right one does not exist yet, use the nearest open option and keep the door open to a better one.

None of this asks permission, and all of it is reversible.