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Not who you are responding to, but maybe the slot machine effect is exactly why it does not work for me. To me loosing at the slot roll is actually fairly anno
by georgyo 5y ago
Not who you are responding to, but maybe the slot machine effect is exactly why it does not work for me.
To me loosing at the slot roll is actually fairly annoying. When I win, it is not a feeling of reward, but disappointment at myself. Infact, all games if chance really get under my skin.
But I can doom scroll Reddit for hours. The big difference is that most posts have some reward, and a few posts have a big reward. But I don't feel like I'm wadding though mountains of garbage.
I imagine this is why TikTok is also doing so well. Most of the videos are at least somewhat interesting. However I uninstall it quickly because of how dumb the content is as well.
Twitter may have some golden nuggets, but panning for them is more painful then the reward.
- nojito 5y agoTwitter, Reddit, TikTok are all using the same mechanism. It's about getting you through the initial cycles as quickly as possible to get you stuck in a longer more permanent reward cycle. It really has nothing to do with content at the end of the day.
- kingcharles 5y agoTikTok, to my eyes, has produced a vastly superior brand of heroin. TikTok is the Fentanyl to Reddit and Twitter's crack rocks.