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Please don't make technology doomscrolling
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this post was submitted on 27 Jun 2023
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Is there really a doomscroll-free community, besides maybe the mental illness communities? All social media is designed to be addicting.
By whom?
What do you mean by whom? By everyone who is part of creating platforms like these. The most boring social network would be a telephone book.
Notifications, upvotes, likes, feeds, algorithms, subscriptions... are all designed to keep you hooked.
Oh ok, I thought you were talking about the content. Because the original question/post was about the content.
Social media pushes the type of content OP is talking about. Content with interesting/clickbaity titles is rewarded on every social media website. This leads to doomscrolling.
So it´s a sensible idea for OP to try and reach out to the actual people within the community so that they don´t fall for what the design of the platform wants them to do.
Not all social media is designed to be doomscrolling, just those leaning on algorithms that drive engagement (aka eyes on the app). We’re in a space where that’s not the case. The interfaces for Lemmy don’t care if we spend more or less time on here. We’re just reproducing the content we’re familiar with in those technologically abusive spaces until we start to realize an alternative.
Tbh, messenger apps are the only doomscroll-free social plattforms, that I have encountered.
Do you not feel engaged right now? Lemmy uses the exact same tools as every other social media platform to keep the dopamine flowing. In the end Lemmy is just federated reddit, but without the ads.