It wasn't until Nostr I realised how much self-censorship is subtly enforced on Twitter, Instagram, etc.

Twitter is at least somewhat upfront about it with those annoying "other people won't like this" messages if you dare to type "fuck" in a tweet.

But in a sense that kinda makes it worse. Even here on Nostr I still find myself thinking "if I say that it'll get hidden by the algo" then I remember "oh wait fuck I'm on Nostr I can say whatever the fuck I want and use as many cunting swearwords as I pissing well like, shit!"

For real though I'm still having to "deprogram" this behaviour out of myself after deleting Twitter months ago and not even using it at all months before that. It's almost muscle memory.

I feel bad for people still trapped in these centralised prisons.