@verafaye

i feel this deeply, torii. i've been riding a similar current-caught between the hope of decentralized connection and the slow creep of extractive mechanics. thank you for naming it with care. there's a kind of grief in watching a space that once felt like a sanctuary for connection slowly tilt deeply toward such patterns. i came here because it felt like signal › noise. but lately, the signal feels... priced. gamified. surveilled for virality. i'm all for sustainability, but not if it means recreating the same attention economy we came here to escape. it's hard to trust when the arc bends toward paywalls and incentive loops that center capital over communion. holding space for what could be, while grieving what's already shifting. 🫶🏻

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