Comment on Rubén Baler, neuroscientist: ‘We are guinea pigs. Our attention has become a profitable commodity’
whoreticulture@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month agoidk I use my phone to play chess, wingspan, Root, all kinds of games. And on Instagram I usually just see pictures about my friends lives, news, local events. The most well informed people I know are all active on social media. If all your kids are doing is playing console video games, they’ll be disconnected. The most cutting edge news is on social media, and has been for years now. My phone is just a more comfortable way to do things. I could play chess and read the news on my laptop, but I don’t want to.
This just reads like moral panic over tech you don’t like … you know, people used to fear-monger about books being too addictive and bad for you.
rtxn@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Doomscrolling on reddit, imgur, and twatter destroyed my mental health over a ~4-year period. I went cold turkey on all three about a year ago and there is a remarkable difference. They caused a great deal of anxiety, I just didn’t realise it at the time.
whoreticulture@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
How is Lemmy better than reddit for doomscrolling?
rtxn@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Less content on the whole. There are many “the world is sliding back into fascism”-type posts, but I don’t feel compelled to scroll on the front page infinitely.