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You just prefer text as your dopamine injection medium rather than video.

• alganet 1y ago
  If the world was addicted to reading, it would be actually great. It offers rewards beyond instant gratification.
  • the_af 1y ago
    I'm not convinced bite-sized back and forth like Twitter and HN comments count as "reading", not in the sense you meant it anyway.
    • tayo42 1y ago
      It's better then the one way para social relationships or w/e they're called
      • whatevertrevor 1y ago
        Eh people can develop those with pseudonymous accounts too. There's a reason why people bemoan the death of early twitter "communities" and whatnot. There are plenty reddit celebrity accounts as well. People do project their general behaviour patterns on social media regardless of the form, though some forms are more malleable to that than others.
        • alganet 1y ago
          It's 2025, no one is mourning Twitter.
          • whatevertrevor 1y ago
            That neither addresses the core of what I'm saying nor is factually accurate, as I know many people mourning the loss of heyday Twitter.
            • alganet 1y ago
              Oh shit, I wasn't expecting you to be serious about it. Well, in that case, I need some sources. For example, I'm not convinced that people project on social media to the extent that you're implying they do. It's a statement that needs support (which you didn't provided). I am confident that you are able to find those sources, then we'll be able to talk about it on a common ground!
              • whatevertrevor 1y ago
                You need sources for the fact that there are celebrity Twitter/Bluesky/Reddit accounts? You can easily find many of these, just some google searching is required. Not accounts owned by celebrities mind you (of which there are also many), pseudonymous accounts that have become celebrities over the years. As for evidence for people actually miss old Twitter, sorry I can't prove to you I have friends who mention that multiple times a month. You can take it for what it is (someone sharing their experience) or you can assume that I'm making this up for the sake of a throwaway internet conversation. Your choice.
                • alganet 1y ago
                  You said: > People do project their general behaviour patterns on social media regardless of the form I need sources (not examples!) that demonstrate that people project their general behavioral patterns on social media. I also need sources (not examples!) that demonstrate that this projection remains the same regardless of the form (video, text, etc). Your line of reasoning implies that Twitter was one of the means for people to do that, and the reach lost by the dissolution of Twitter communities exemplifies this projection mechanism. It's a fair assumption, but not enough to prove that *general* behavior was present in such interations, nor that it works *regardless of form*. So, there's a lot to prove. If I were to guess, I would say the case is much more specific, and the generalization does not hold water. Good luck.
                  • whatevertrevor 1y ago
                    You are interested in debating against the narrowest possible literal interpretation of a sentence while selectively removing surrounding context as it suits your argument. That's not the kind of conversation I'm interested in, sorry.
• ddtaylor 1y ago
  What I have noticed is that when I read something I often deeply connected enough to the material that at some point I disengage and go DO SOMETHING with that information. If I'm reading something about a guy coding something and I get an idea I am going to play around. Most of the YouTube and short-form content doesn't inspire anything like that. The "job" is to sit and watch the content for 30 seconds and repeat. Almost every form of "engagement" is to manipulate the audience into "doing the algorithm". I think they have differences that are significant.