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instant gratification with sources of novelty i do not actively have to choose is the elephant in the room of my entire life
this is about the smartphone and social media but it is about a lot more than that. it is also about the computer and the internet and the goddamn news
it is occasionally algorithmic timelines but it is also the following timeline
it is twitter but it is also youtube and hacker news and once upon a time it was reddit
it is, from time to time, discord servers
it is various news outlets
it is my email inbox
it is more also
i am blessed that i never got hooked on tiktok but i am still spending the better part of my life with one foot on this planet and one foot in hell
@hikari@social.noyu.me ironically tiktok is the only platform I ever managed to unhook myself from, cold turkey
@asie it's so asocial that this kind of makes sense to me
@hikari@social.noyu.me actually I realized it's the only social media platform I used where five minutes turned into two hours (as opposed to five minutes before switching to a different skinner box). I was also upset that it was playing into some of my deepest personal complexes.