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[–] [email protected] 116 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Algorithmic Addiction from Social Media consumption. An analogy would be Caffeine addiction from coffee consumption.

Most people who use smartphones are addicts and are far from being aware of it.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I only browse lemmy 6 hours a day, there's no way I'm addicted!

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I will show you, I will close the app right know!

edit: I'm back. See? I told you I could do it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I haven't found enough content on Lemmy to keep me interested daily...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I'm jealous. All of the productive things I would do...

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah I'm feeling that. I thought I had kicked up, but Lemmy is getting too good lately...

And Lemmy isn't even intentionally employing dark patterns to drive up my engagement.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I don't know if you are using the web UI or an app, but I found that if you use a mobile app it gets even more addictive. I had to delete Connect from my phone because it made it easier to just sit and scroll. Now I'm doing that on the web anyway, argh...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I haven't yet become addicted to Lemmy. Still relapsing from a decade of Reddit. I barely remember how to live without it.