Cozy dystopia. God help me.
Aqarius
You got it backwards - just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not after you.
The purple people eater got them all, sadly.
I'm actually shocked
I'm not. Ever since the war, every single closet xenophobe of the west has been taking full advantage of finally having an acceptable group of subhumans to hate. If any of this surprises you, you haven't been paying attention.
Frankly that sounds like "OK, I did install a camera in your bedroom, but it's not like it's on or anything!"
This is a very interesting idea. It would certainly explain why people seem to constantly "infill" everything everone says with whatever gets them the most angry - the algo feeds them ragebait, so that's what they see.
"It's not piracy, it's federated backups!"
And they do. My Philips TV didn't even ask for DNS until hardcoded IPs for Netflix et al. timed out. And when it did, it asked Google, not my router.
Simple, we wrrie down the information on how to read the discs!
Oh, it's not the concern that's funny, if they had that selfawareness it would be admirable. Instead, you have people pat themselves on the back for how aware they are every time they encounter a validating piece of propaganda they, of course, fall for. Big "I know a messiah when I see one, I've followed quite a few!" energy.
Username checks out, at least.