bostonwine on Nostr: Agreed on all counts. The average social media user has been trained by the ...
Agreed on all counts. The average social media user has been trained by the red-notification-dot dopamine hits to behave generally unpleasantly! And behind screens and keyboards, there isn’t much of the social feedback we’d recieve if we actually behaved that way around people in the physical world.
So it combines addictive incentives and rewards, for negative and antisocial behavior, and then monetizes it all, for the profit of the companies providing the platforms.
On top of that, we’re coddled by paternalistic moderators to expect that someone else will do the work to ensure that the content we consume is palatable, while simultaneously self-censoring for fear that the platform mods (or other trigger-happy users) will take issue with a comment or point of view, and subsequently get de-platformed from the toxic digital relationship playground we’ve become so addicted to…
It’s no surprise that many of us are looking for a way to opt out!
So it combines addictive incentives and rewards, for negative and antisocial behavior, and then monetizes it all, for the profit of the companies providing the platforms.
On top of that, we’re coddled by paternalistic moderators to expect that someone else will do the work to ensure that the content we consume is palatable, while simultaneously self-censoring for fear that the platform mods (or other trigger-happy users) will take issue with a comment or point of view, and subsequently get de-platformed from the toxic digital relationship playground we’ve become so addicted to…
It’s no surprise that many of us are looking for a way to opt out!