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1. snovymgodym · 1790442667 · focus · HN ↗

   A really toxic part of online interactions is that it's very common for people to see a tiny snippet of another person's life and then project all of their own personal resentments onto them.

   1. everyone · 1790444190 · focus · HN ↗

      Is there any benefit to social media? Just seems like a new form of cancer we have to deal with now along with everything else.

      1. pipes · 1790445084 · focus · HN ↗

         A place for those who would be marginalised by their own community, gay, religious apostates etc etc.

         Communicating with relatives on the other side of the world.

         Maintaining old friendships that would have died due to distance.

         Somewhere to find like minded people.

         Somewhere like hacker news (I count it as social media top) where I discovered great books, expanded my horizons and learnt that there were other ways at looking at the world.

         Anyway, it's not all bad :)

         1. santadays · 1790446030 · focus · HN ↗

            There are social sharing functions and then there are algorithmic feedback loops that induce doomscrolling. Pretty sure it’s technically feasible to have one without the other.

            The question to me is, with enough content and a powerful enough recommendation algorithm trained with enough eyeballs can short form videos be considered addictive in a clinical sense? If so what are the deleterious effects of the addiction? Should it be regulated?

            I’m all for freedom, but we regulate drugs because we deem them bad for society.

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