Everyone is aware of that. No one thinks Facebook or Mark are some saint entities. But while the spider is doing some good deeds why not just go "yeah! go spider!". Once it becomes an asshole, we will kill it. People are not dumb.
> I refuse to live my life as if these things aren't important to me. I refuse to average my entire life style down to my median day. My median day is boring.
Maybe that's the biggest problem and your current solutions are inadequate?
Stop listening to people who say to stop listening to people trying to tell you what you should do or not. It is not all relative, there are good and bad choices.
What is not understandable here? Crypto is all about decentralization, Community Notes embodies that value (obviously not ideally, because Twitter still can decide to do whatever).
This is a good point. You might become a confident asshole who wants to compensate for all the suffering that you experienced because of social anxiety.
Just keep doing what you're doing. Like with everything, expose yourself to your fear and it'll get better.
> I still play the fun game in my head of “haha did we all have a good time today or did I actually say something terrible and now everyone hates me or thinks I’m a fool?”
Appearing as a fool, saying controversial things, getting rejected over and over again - that is how you get over social anxiety.
- Someone who had a great deal of social anxiety and now has no problem at all meeting random strangers at random events.