@gamingonlinux I feel you, brother: #gambling is highly #addictive, so be careful! And the #gamblification and #enshittification of #videoGames is a plague we face each passing day with every new #gacha shit sprouting to life

The #RealLife #Making of a #Fictional #Psychologist.

#Psychotherapy is ultimately about #helping #people shape their lives into cohesive #narratives; I was listening to people’s #stories instead of #writing them myself. And in some instances I was #helping people #change their #lives for the #better, which is an #addictive kind of #joy.

https://booksbywomen.org/the-real-life-making-of-a-fictional-psychologist/

#SCOTUS’ decision will fuel efforts on the #antiabortion side to restrict #abortion #medication in other ways. One recent example #involved Louisiana classifying abortion pills as #ScheduleIV drugs, a category that suggested they were #dangerous or #addictive substances, contrary to #medical evidence.

The bill targets any social media site that #tracks user activity, allows #children to #upload material & #interact w/others, & uses #addictive features designed to cause excessive or #compulsive use. Supporters point to rising #suicide rates among children, #cyberbullying & #predators using social media to prey on #kids.

My experience of avoiding #Mastodon for a whole week

I figured out that timelines are really bad. They trap you in this weird slot-machine-like game where you pull the lever over and over again.

Timelines are polluted with interesting topics and unimportant posts. A perfect mix for gambling.

You barely hit something good, but if, you get a small dopamine boost, which holds for a few seconds and as soon as it's gone, you keep pulling the lever over and over again, until you wasted a lot of time or fall asleep being exhausted of scrolling.

There is nothing social in timelines. It's only an invention of big tech corps to keep you on their platforms to consume more ads and get more data to sell.

Even if timelines are in order on the fediverse and not manipulated by algorithms, like those from #facebook #twitter or #instagram, it still has it's flaws.

A good solution would be to only show the content of a person I follow, who uses a specific hashtag I follow, too. Both should match, not only one of it. The timeline would be very short and not as long as it normally is, which is a problem, too, because if someone posts something at a wrong time, the post goes into the void without anyone seeing it.

Why are #timelines a thing in the #fediverse?

Wasn't the fediverse something without ads and for the people and because it tried to be social?

Why do we have those #addictive and #notsocial mechanisms here?

If someone knows a better system or tool, which is content based and more social, please let me know.

btw. my #productivity went up the last week a lot, because the very first thing I did in the morning was something useful, like working in the garden, working on the next youtube video, reading a book or learning. With social media I would've wasted the time scrolling and that's only what happened in the morning! Imagine the rest of the day being as productive as those mornings...

#socialmedia #addiction #distraction #timekiller #trapsoftheinternet #doomscrolling #wastingtime