Truscape comments on Meta really wants you to believe social media addiction is 'not a real thing'

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[–] Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 child)

Lemmy is addictive in the same way that attending a routine community center event is addictive - you're happy to come back and see old and new faces, and contribute towards keeping the conversations going.

If you want to set up a new event (instance/community), you can do it yourself, in your own environment, without external pressure.

I would call Facebook, Reddit, IG, etc... more like a casino. You pull constant refreshes for dopamine hits, are fed a stream of ads and content that ostracises you if you don't stay with the current trends, and have no control over your personal data or any works you create.

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[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 3 points 9 months ago

I don't know, I definitely find myself getting stuck in a loop of endless scrolling even on lemmy. At least, the client I'm using features endless scrolling, and my alcoholic brain is really bad at cutting myself off.

It's still better for the reasons you stated above. I'm not being flooded with grifters, manipulative advertisements, systematized disinformation, and algorithmically-privileged ragebait content. And my data isn't being harvested and sold to the highest bidder.

But I wouldn't say it's non-addictive. It's still a steady stream of low-effort dopamine. Not always a bad thing, but I definitely still procrastinate just as much.

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