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[-] atro_city@fedia.io 182 points 4 days ago

How are so many people still on Xitter?

[-] the_q@lemmy.zip 120 points 4 days ago

The same way people are still on heroin.

[-] atro_city@fedia.io 33 points 4 days ago
[-] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 60 points 4 days ago

Yes. Dopamine is a helluva drug.

[-] atro_city@fedia.io 12 points 4 days ago

Does being called a faggot and communist online really stimulate the dopamine release? I'd be a little worried if that's the case.

[-] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 22 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Looking at it strictly from your perspective, it doesn’t make sense does it? But, keep in mind that there are a lot of people who share the same view (regardless of how correct or wrong they may be to you). And when those people gather together and start validating each other, yes your brain releases more dopamine. And when someone is addicted to a substance (even dopamine), we will try to seek out those same triggers so we can continue to get that hit.

The problem with addiction is that our biology builds a tolerance to it, so we need more of said substance to get the same high as before. So we need to escalate the things we do. And when we don’t get those hits, our physiology causes us to experience pain. And what do you do when you’re in pain? Hopefully you stop doing whatever it is that causes you pain. It’s a vicious cycle; a feedback loop if you will.

Now I have a question for you: did you actually type out Censored or did you say a “bad” word?

[-] faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 35 points 4 days ago

It's the .world censoring. I can see the slur from my instance.

[-] ramble81@lemmy.zip 14 points 4 days ago

Did you actually type out Censored

Oh wow. That looks like your instance or your app that did that. I’m on Lemmy.zip using Voyager

[-] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 14 points 4 days ago

That’s disappointing. While I don’t personally condone the use of that word, we’re all adults here and should be able to just downvote or rebut or whatever without censorship. 🤷‍♂️

[-] SatyrSack@quokk.au 9 points 3 days ago

That is the beauty of being able do choose to use an instance that fits your needs. If you really care about that censorship enough, you can just make a new account somewhere other than Lemmy World.

[-] prole 1 points 4 days ago

It's not censored on my Lemmy app (Boost). He used the f slur.

[-] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 days ago

I can see the word. And it's an appropriate reference to inappropriate speech by others, imho. But to avoid having the censorship interfere with making your point, you might want to type something like fxxxxt that gives a clue to the slur you're referring to.

[-] atro_city@fedia.io 2 points 3 days ago

I dislike that because then we get to the point of typing sht and sx or m**st to self-censor.

https://www.socialcooling.com/

[-] mudkip@lemdro.id 3 points 3 days ago

We're allowed to say faggot here

[-] Meron35@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago

Yes. Social media addiction is comparable to those of illicit drugs, both in terms of actual symptoms, as well how alter dopamine networks in the brain.

This is just a recent review article that focuses on teens, but similar results hold more broadly as well if you search.

Social Media Algorithms and Teen Addiction: Neurophysiological Impact and Ethical Considerations - PMC - https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11804976/

[-] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 19 points 4 days ago

People are fine with nazis as long as it benefits them or they don’t have to change.

[-] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 7 points 4 days ago

Dude its terrible. I tell my friends they need to get off and theyre like " but why doh? Me like it. " Ugh.

[-] SatyrSack@quokk.au 4 points 4 days ago

God dammit, Sarah

[-] simplejack@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

A chunk of people still use it to provide a counter narrative to the right wing propagandists. Kind of like when Buttigieg or Newsom go on Fox News.

[-] atro_city@fedia.io 1 points 3 days ago

Do we though? It's on a platform owned by an autistic fascist, racist, and supremacist. There's no other content that will really be allowed there.

[-] FridaySteve@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

Especially when the entire experience can be recreated in any rudimentary AI chatbot. It's not like there are any human users left on Twitter anyway.

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