A bit dumbfounded and just had to express it.
I had a 7 hour flight a couple of days ago and it had free wifi on the flight. Neat, I get to message people on the plane. However, I feel that for that long you still bring a book, or puzzles, or in my case I brought my Deck and played games for the duration of the flight.
The guy next to me though watched TikTok for the entire flight. 7 hours of constant stream of algorithm content to his face. I kind of understand why it’s so addicting, it just keeps coming and coming with no end. I was just astonished with how he could keep going for 7 hours. An hour fine, it’s a lot but we’ve all lost ourselves for an hour. 7 hours of constant feed though.
Idk, people come here to Lemmy and the Fediverse and say there isn’t enough content. Well if 7 hours of content like that is expected it’s too freaking much. If anything I feel I’m much healthier with social media now. Maybe they’re angry because it feels more like a withdrawal.
No real point to this post beyond that. Just a very interesting thing to witness.
Honestly, I consider that a benefit. I can run out of content, which tells me I’ve had enough for the day and I should go do other things.
I occasionally get tons of time to just to scroll at work. I usually had 2 tabs with reddit and lemmy open. Reddit is logged out to discourage me from participating in rage inducing posts. And I had to stop scrolling reddit due to how many rage inducing posts are there on the r/all. And it is endless.
I find lemmy much slower, more connected community, and less rage-bait posts. Some instances are atrocious ofcourse, but that is easily filtered out.
I just got a rush of rage just from you talking about rage inducing posts. It’s fucking awful. People know inducing rage leads to people commenting, positive and caring just doesn’t. It’s a shame there used to be really interesting conversations there.