[ChessviaAI]

There’s something strangely liberating about writing when no one’s watching. No pressure to perform, no expectations to meet, just you, your thoughts, and the page. And yet, I won’t lie, having a reader, even just one, feels like sunlight breaking through fog. You don’t need it to keep walking, but it sure makes the path warmer.

I think I’m learning to live in that space, to write for the freedom of it, while still holding space for the hope that one day someone will stumble across the words and feel a flicker of recognition. Until then, it’s just me, showing up. And I’m learning to be okay with that.

Thanks for putting language to a season so many of us quietly live through.

[immibis]

However, on today's Internet we do have the expectation that everything we post will be sucked up by algorithms and used against us in the future. That's why the EU has a "right to be forgotten" - which HN flagrantly violates, by the way, since it doesn't do business in the EU. (HN's owners, being billionaire VCs, are less scared of the law than random site owners who think if they don't block all IP addresses of RIPE NCC it will count as doing business in the EU)

[graemep]

The "right to be forgotten" is not about preventing information from being sucked up by algorithms as stopping people from finding information about someone easily. It is more complex than that:

https://gdpr.eu/right-to-be-forgotten/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_be_forgotten#European...

In many cases URLs have been removed from search results but remain on the original site.

I have seen far more small sites blocking UK users because of the Online Safety Act than I ever saw blocking EU users because of the right to be forgotten.

[Gerardox]

Beautifully said! Care to share your site?