on doomscrolling
I don't think there is enough for a blog post on this topic so I'll post it here.
saw a video in my YT video titled "books i recently read instead of doomscrolling" which made me think of this. this is not a dunk on that video or the person who made that video either.
the thought I had is that "doomscrolling" as a phenomenon is fully enabled and encouraged by the design of corporate social networking services (think Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok etc.).
I find that I can avoid doomscrolling entirely just by not using any of those apps, the only real avenue for me to "doomscroll" is to use YouTube Shorts and I very much despise the short video format of TikTok/YT Shorts so I pointedly never watch any of them.
like theoretically I can "doomscroll" on fedi by looking at specific hashtags but I have to deliberately go out of my way to do this. And I have strong filters that filter a lot of the shit I don't want to see away from my feed. And I judiciously apply timed mutes on people when necessary.
point being that the simplest way to avoid doomscrolling is to avoid being on places that encourage and enable doomscrolling because it benefits their bottom line.
on doomscrolling
the fediverse is not immune to doomscrolling but it doesn't systematically enable and encourage it within its design.
for the most part - the "trends" feature in Mastodon does this which is why that anti-feature is disabled on Ten Forward.
even with that, people running fediverse instances have no financial incentive to enable and encourage people to doomscroll.
re: on doomscrolling
@packetcat we do enable trends here on GlitchCat but only because it lets us ensure #cats is alawys trending
