Sadly not too many options where I live.

Newer phones are harder to get custom ROMs on and most of them don’t have them.

Only solution is an older phone with custom ROM

Back when I was a teenager I had the blind optimism the future would be bright and we would keep all the positive trends we had in the early 2010s.

No thanks, it would be yet another EEE scheme.

sadly GabeN can only count up to 2

One more grifter preying on young men has fallen. This is a nice day.

Also 666th upvote

Thanks. I’ll try to kickstart mine once I have some free time.

Return in all aspects to how it used to be in 2014 or earlier, but it will never happen because enshittification cannot be reverted.

That includes the bloated inefficient new design that includes an intentionally hostile mobile website that shits the bed on 3G connections, the echo chamber machinery, random layout shifts, NSFW login walls, automated censorship and shadowbanning, the privileges for the big subreddits and the big sponsored powermods.