I've been trying to figure out if I'm shadowbanned on X and TikTok or if I just suck. Feels like I'm spinning my wheels on social media trying to get any engagement. I know social media is silly, but is it at this point?

The TV was the "idiot box" when it first came around. Prior to TV, books were even seen as a waste of time. However, these mediums became mainstays of arts, culture, and the dissemination of information over time. Social media has become so ubiquitous at this point that the argument could be made that it should function as a public utility. Social media has become a major source of news and entertainment, but all of us that use it are beholden to the algorithm, rules, and regulations of these platforms. In order to get any engagement you have to abide by an arbitrary set of rules that you may or may not be aware of. It is dubious what constitutes a community violation on these platforms, and the rules are different depending on the user. A user with a smaller following is subject to stricter guidelines, whereas accounts with hundreds of thousands or millions of followers seemingly can do as they please.

I can only speculate that at some point I posted something that got flagged by some program and now my profiles are being throttled or shadowbanned by these platforms, or I just suck and make bad content. But how can what I do be any worse than a guy laughing while he points at someone else's post?

All this is to say Sal's wife kicked him out of the house and we need y'all's support more than ever:

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