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It's not supposed to be. It doesn't jam endless recommendations in your feed once you've gotten at the end of the new, fresh content. I feel like it's a feature, not a bug, to have platforms that don't optimise for time spent on them, because they don't need our attention to show us ads.
I'm so happy this is the top comment when I came in here. We're not centralized social media that requires constant content generation to acquire more views and we shouldn't try to treat it as such. Donate to your instances when you can, contribute to communities you care about with posts/comments, and then when you reach the end of your feed log off. How forums are supposed to be imo.
I never realized all this but it’s so true. I browse and comment until I’m caught up, then log off.
Wow
Exactly. Places/communities like Lemmy can and should serve different functions for different people - newsfeed, forum, meme collection/dumping ground - but the fine line between value and addiction gets obliterated by moneyed interests.
There is no karma system so no people shitposting and reposting as much to pump up their score. Without this kind of gamification there is less noise.
Basically, no dark patterns built to keep you scrolling.
So then what are the up/down votes for?
Individual post/comment votes. They would only get used for post/comment sorting at best. Nothing more.
Cool, thanks!
Exactly. It shouldn’t be addictive. It should fill a purpose.
Reddit did not fill a purpose. It was mainly skreee all day.
While I’ve some Reddit behavior here for the most part it’s been discussions.
I lean right. I’m not far right. I’m socially more left but fiscally I’m more right.
Reddit was just skreee to me.
Fiscally right?? Does that mean you write a check to Jeff Bezos every month?
Oh fuck that dude. I strongly dislike bezos. His whole business plan is abuse everyone. That’s not my style
I just don't get this "fiscally conservative" bullshit. You want to cut taxes on the rich as infrastructure continues to crumble? You want to hide your money in offshore bank accounts? You want to implement legislation that funnels unregulated money into corporate bank accounts then forgive all the debt? You want to use campaign finance to accept bribes then have the courts make it legal?
Edit: Maybe it's you want to raise the national debt to record numbers then years later pretend all the sudden to be "worried about the deficit" and refuse to raise the debt ceiling and threaten to shut down the government.
Honestly an optional recommendation feature would be cool.
Yeah, I'd like it too, but I suppose it's a lot of work.
The only person here answering the question lol