I know a lot of people are complaining about overuse of the word "gaslighting" but I think it very much applies to the way that big corporate social media sites will hide adult content from you and then try to convince you it was your choice
"This post contains content you have chosen not to see" except I never chose that, I purposely selected the "show me adult content" option
"No results for [sex worker's handle]" AND YET if I follow a link I saved, it takes me directly to their page, where I can see they have posted within the last 24 hours
As someone with piss-poor memory and organizational skills, it scares the fuck outta me that the more I use tech to augment my mental processes, the more in-roads tech companies have to screw around with my fundamental perceptions of reality
this was a huge pain in the ass for me on twitter since I'm terrible at remembering names and spelling things, and a ton of my friends post porn, so if I tried to @ them or DM them, their name wouldn't autocomplete in exactly the same same way it doesn't if an account doesn't exist or is suspended
so I had no idea if I was misremembering their name, or how to spell it, or if they're banned, unless I type it into the URL and see if it goes where I think
marginally related: having a terrible memory for names when most of your friends are trans is stressful lmao
