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#DoomScrolling on Twitter

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#BloomScrolling on #Mastodon / in the #Fediverse

@spearmintwarlock @CardboardRobot @peterbutler
The issue is pandering to the lowest common denominator. The UX is designed for #doomscrolling entertainment and paid intercept conversion.

#Birdverse monetized it. Cynicism weaponized it. Then ChatGPT came along and camouflaged originality.

Discourse on centralized platforms? Ended in '22. Creators will abandon / be free of the economic feudalism that is commercial social media.

#mastodon doesn't pander to the LCD. (...yet.)

Sick and tired of #doomscrolling. Feeling a lightness one hasn’t felt in 12 years. Logging off for the evening without feeling angry or depressed. Bye actually happy. .

"You'll Never Scroll to the End." - A point where we feel satisfied with our understanding of the world can never arrive on social media. It will always be perpetually out of reach.

“One can waste years systematically postponing precisely the things one cares about the most.” ― Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks

#socialmedia #doomscrolling #twitter #philosophy

https://www.staygrounded.online/p/youll-never-scroll-to-the-end