me nervously doom-scrolling on lemmy via voyager 👀

I've been averse to trends like this, but I did get on Facebook and Insta this summer at the urging of some friends (I run a nonprofit so it's useful to network). By last week I had both apps on my phone and was just numbscrolling through Insta videos. Realized my mental health had gone to absolute shit in weeks. Deleted the apps andI'm feeling myself again.

It really is dangerous what they've created, if I didn't have ambition, I would be right there zombified.

It's mainly the kids and low information adults who are on Tiktok, that's why it's popular.

Never really understood the culture of gormlessly scrolling through mind-numbing content.

It was less a "cultural thing" and more a functional drift. From the RSS feed to Web2.0 timelines to feed by preference to The Algorithm of ad-promoted content.

Like with email, it wasn't always just a fountain of spam. Our systems have been deliberately and predatorially enshittified.

There's a great deal of real news that goes through the app. It's the majority of the content I see.