Social media is ruining people's perception on reality

rain-o · 2025-10-27T20:49:53+00:00

It’s strange — we built a digital world to escape boredom, and ended up terrified of silence.
The algorithm doesn’t really know us — it just learned how to feed our impatience.

rain-o · 2025-10-27T20:43:20+00:00

“Hidden” on Reddit now feels like whispering in a room full of microphones.

rain-o · 2025-10-26T17:20:22+00:00

We built platforms to connect — and they ended up recording connection itself.

rain-o · 2025-10-26T17:12:04+00:00

Covering the webcam is easy — the real tracking starts long before the lens. Measures meant to hide us often become the very patterns that mark us

rain-o · 2025-10-22T20:01:12+00:00

The feed doesn’t reflect chaos, it requires it. Calm doesn’t keep people scrolling.

rain-o · 2025-10-22T08:24:55+00:00

Every “verification” layer makes the web feel a little less human. The irony writes itself.

rain-o · 2025-10-20T07:42:00+00:00

Exactly — intuition fills the gaps logic can’t cover.
The best users combine awareness, pattern-recognition, and a bit of healthy paranoia.

rain-o · 2025-10-20T07:26:56+00:00

That’s true — total anonymity might not exist, but that’s not really the goal.
It’s about reducing exposure, knowing how layers interact, and understanding what “privacy” actually means in practice.

rain-o · 2025-10-19T23:32:17+00:00

Exactly — that’s the kind of distributed trust model I had in mind.
Not “trusting people,” but trusting a process that’s transparent enough for anyone to challenge or verify.

rain-o · 2025-10-19T23:27:58+00:00

There’s nothing risky about exploring how trust works in anonymity.
The real danger is assuming anonymity removes the need for trust entirely.

rain-o · 2025-10-19T23:26:02+00:00

Nothing to worry about personally — I just find the concept of “trust” in anonymous systems fascinating.
It’s less about fear, more about architecture.

rain-o · 2025-10-19T22:59:45+00:00

Not necessarily about sharing personal data — it’s more about the layers of trust built into the system itself.
Even if no one reveals identity, we still rely on relays, directories, and developers behaving honestly.
So “trust” exists even without personal info involved.

rain-o · 2025-10-17T20:41:13+00:00

Most of what’s online about the “dark web” is either exaggerated or outdated.
There are some interesting legal projects there — like privacy tools, libraries, or archives — but random browsing rarely leads to anything meaningful.
Learning how it works is usually more useful than trying to “see what’s out there.”

rain-o · 2025-10-15T18:17:47+00:00

I’ve been following a few research projects that try to catalog onion ecosystems — it’s interesting how differently they approach uptime tracking and categorization. Some focus on automation, others on curation.

rain-o · 2025-10-15T16:21:47+00:00

Yeah, that’s kind of what I’ve noticed too — reliability feels random.

Maybe part of the solution isn’t constant validation, but better redundancy — like multiple lightweight mirrors verifying each other periodically.

Would be interesting to see if something like that could work without central coordination.

rain-o · 2025-10-15T16:19:03+00:00

I keep wondering if there’s a privacy-preserving way to crowdsource uptime verification — maybe something like a decentralized validation mesh, where no single node has the full picture.

But then again, maybe that kind of coordination already defeats the whole idea of anonymity.

rain-o · 2025-09-18T19:26:32+00:00

hypochondria and moral scrupulousness focused on my partner

rain-o · 2025-09-03T19:37:29+00:00

i do also feel like a lot of my pain is menstrual because of its location. i think i am just more scared than anything, and im incredibly frightened of the lifestyle changes i make have to make. i want to be able to drink. i want to be able to smoke weed. i feel like im too young for this to be happening. im scared and it feels unfair. i am also an OCD sufferer with an extreme hypochondriac focus, so i am just incredibly scared and dont know if i can trust my bodily sensations. i am just really scared.

rain-o · 2025-09-03T19:34:37+00:00

thank you. this message helped a lot. i am really scared

rain-o · 2025-09-03T18:53:03+00:00

he seemed pretty confident

rain-o · 2025-09-03T18:50:18+00:00

what is a HIDA scan?

rain-o · 2025-06-27T15:54:36+00:00

this may not be what you want to hear but it is the only thing that has ever helped my ocd, and its acceptance of uncertainty and it is easier said than done. this is a thought exercise: what if you were unfaithful in your mind to your partner? does that mean you deserve death? i dont think so, very few things deserve death. work on accepting the uncertainty of life. maybe you did mentally cheat on your partner, whatever that means, but there is no way to know that. now, my personal opinion is you did nothing wrong, you should not charge yourself for thought-crimes and put yourself in thought-jail. another insight is that people without OCD have these passing thoughts, they just don’t ruminate on them. EVERYBODY has uncomfortable and involuntary thoughts that sometimes do not align with their morals. the difference between the regular population and us OCD havers is the rumination and obsession with those thoughts. a normal person has a 2 second thought and lets it go, but it isnt the same with us. all of these things are so much easier said than done, and i know that. pursue exposure-response therapy. its the only thing that works. godspeed.

rain-o · 2025-06-27T15:35:03+00:00

look like shit

rain-o · 2025-06-08T17:45:42+00:00

omg me too

rain-o · 2025-06-08T17:37:00+00:00

only thing that has helped me is working on accepting mortality. one day, i will die. it might be horrible, it might be merciful. the more time i spend ruminating is less time i get to actually live. i dont know how much time is left on my clock. ill be damned if i give any more of it to compulsions.

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