It's been "interesting" how my #trust in #technology platforms in recent years has plummeted and is now ~0 (or negative, arguably). There's been this uncanny pervasive sense of #censorship and #narrative_control. I didn't used to remotely feel that way. Good outcomes for humanity require #freedom.

The metaphorical sensation is one of suffocation, as if the walls of society's digital infrastructure at gradually closing in and all the oxygen for even the most basic of necessities of digital life and of even basic #freedom_of_thought are getting thinner and thinner with every passing year.

I've spent my whole life aspiring to the notion of eventually making my own living independently via my own digital creations, but it seems like the people in control of most platforms are just straight up only going to direct as much of humanity's attention as possible to a narrow and myopic subset of heavily propagandized and disingenuously framed and/or engineered topics that have come to pervade "public discourse" to such a great extent that it no longer even feels statistically plausible that most of it is even natural.

I honestly don't even know how those of us who want to work as #independent_creators are even going to be able to survive in the coming years. The people controlling most of the internet seem to think they are doing some kind of great good but it feels more like real intellectual and cultural diversity are being gradually snuffed out and we are all the worse for it.