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Video games are losing the "attention war" to gambling, porn, and crypto, according to industry report (www.eurogamer.net)
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[-] Batmorous@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

No no no there's lots of good happening you just to look out and see it. Yes a lot of the bad news sucks but there is a lot of good still happening and a lot of people getting things done:

Read https://goodgoodgood.co/, and https://goodnewsnetwork.org/. Also watch Good News (That's the name) and Sam Bentley YouTube channels

For good good good.co there is also 2 articles where they cover studies on Hope (They cover many other studies, hopeful and good news too in their other articles):

  1. New study finds hope key to a meaningful life

https://www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/hope-key-in-meaningful-life

  1. Hopeful people live better lives

https://www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/hopeful-people-live-better-lives-study

There is a 3rd site that covers issues but in problem solving way forgot name of it though.

Never give up!! We the people have the power to make this life wonderful and free! -From Chaplin final speech video. Great video to watch

You can do anything in this life. Keep going. Connect with others and do! Find things you enjoy doing and find fulfillment from in life! Much love to you brother/sister!

[-] Elevator7009@lemmy.zip 1 points 22 hours ago

I do notice that it takes more effort though. Before online platforms figured out the whole engagement outrage pattern, I spent a lot of time playing video games, yes, but also reading books or making art.

Then the online platforms started investing in trying to figure out how to engage you, and it is easier and easier to spend time online by default to the exclusion of other things and feel bad about it because your online time wasn't spent on something that made you feel good like it did in the past. It is surprisingly hard to resist the current big platforms are trying to push us down.

People on the Threadiverse have taken at least a small step by disengaging from Reddit and going to an open-source, non-corporate-controlled engagement-maxing platform. But human negativity bias still makes it a lot easier to post outrage and comment outrage and get in fights. Hell, I am making this comment because of my own negativity bias and desire to expound on how much I hate what has been done to our attention spans! It's a lot easier to complain than to analyze why I enjoy something. And I think the engagement bait outrage has ruined my brain a bit to still sort of seek that out and scroll (but better Lemmy than Reddit). I've been trying to get off but change is hard. Sometimes I relapse and click an article I know will have negativity and anger, like this article I clicked on.

I do really appreciate what you did by posting something to help instead of yet another "thing bad" even if I super agree with "thing bad", and I'm being part of the "thing bad" pattern right now.

I do know of !takeyourtimeback@lemmy.world which might be able to help with the whole online engagement problem.

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