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I am actually not convinced the people chatting on Mastodon or Discord are addicted in the same way as YouTube and Twitter. How about this instead, no algorith

I am actually not convinced the people chatting on Mastodon or Discord are addicted in the same way as YouTube and Twitter. How about this instead, no algorithmic feeds for any 8 hours of the day you choose, so if you want a more peaceful evening you select 7pm-3am and your feed is just people you follow ordered by when they first posted.

vidarh 3y ago
No thanks. No way. I'm working on adding algorithmic feeds to my Mastodon instance because it's the biggest issue I have with Mastodon. It's also making me spend more time because I have to scroll through a bunch of stuff I have no interest in to see the stuff I want to see. Put another way: To me, your statement boils down to telling me I should be less social. These kinds of places are the social contact I grew up with - starting with BBS's in the early 90's onwards - and where I've met and keep in touch with most of the people I know. I have no problem accepting some people have problems controlling their social media use, but at the same time to me talking about limiting or shutting it down is about as authoritarian and restrictive as enforcing curfew. In fact, more so - it'd affect me more negatively than being forcibly locked in my own house 8 hours a day.