Yes. Dopamine is a helluva drug.
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atro_city@fedia.io 5 months agoXitter is addictive?
dohpaz42@lemmy.world 5 months ago
atro_city@fedia.io 5 months ago
Does being called a faggot and communist online really stimulate the dopamine release? I'd be a little worried if that's the case.
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
I can see the word. And it’s an appropriate reference to inappropriate speech by others, imho. But to avoid having the censorship interfere with making your point, you might want to type something like fxxxxt that gives a clue to the slur you’re referring to.
atro_city@fedia.io 5 months ago
I dislike that because then we get to the point of typing sht and sx or m**st to self-censor.
XiELEd@piefed.social 5 months ago
dohpaz42@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Looking at it strictly from your perspective, it doesn’t make sense does it? But, keep in mind that there are a lot of people who share the same view (regardless of how correct or wrong they may be to you). And when those people gather together and start validating each other, yes your brain releases more dopamine. And when someone is addicted to a substance (even dopamine), we will try to seek out those same triggers so we can continue to get that hit.
The problem with addiction is that our biology holds a tolerance to it, so we need more of said substance to get the same high as before. So we need to escalate the things we do. And when we don’t get those hits, our physiology causes us to experience pain. And what do you do when you’re in pain? Hopefully you stop doing whatever it is that causes you pain. It’s a vicious cycle; a feedback loop if you will.
Now I have a question for you: did you actually type out
Censoredor did you say a “bad” word?ramble81@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
Did you actually type out Censored
Oh wow. That looks like your instance or your app that did that. I’m on Lemmy.zip using Voyager
faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 5 months ago
It’s the .world censoring. I can see the slur from my instance.
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Not sure what you tried to say, but it was bad enough for automod to replace a single word with “removed” in your comment and it reported the comment as using a slur.
Does being called a removed and communist online
Context wise it was fine, and I get what you’re saying, and that you weren’t calling anyone that.
But just a heads up you got a little too authentic with what life’s like on twitter, and might want to avoid doing that.
atro_city@fedia.io 5 months ago
I'm trying to say that if you're a target of the fascists on Xitter, why would you willingly expose yourself to their abuse? It doesn't seem like a fun nor productive activity unless you have a bot on there that's trying to sway their opinion.
hddsx@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
But just a heads up you got a little too authentic with what life’s like on twitter, and might want to avoid doing
Amazing quote. Thanks, mate
Meron35@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Yes. Social media addiction is comparable to those of illicit drugs, both in terms of actual symptoms, as well how alter dopamine networks in the brain.
This is just a recent review article that focuses on teens, but similar results hold more broadly as well if you search.
Social Media Algorithms and Teen Addiction: Neurophysiological Impact and Ethical Considerations - PMC - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11804976/