Short-form videos, like many things in modern society (e.g. many video games) are essentially just a Skinner Box. You scroll, watch the video, get a hit of pleasure, and then the video automatically replays. That cues you to scroll. Repeat. It’s easy to get stuck in that loop, especially if you already are struggling with executive dysfunction and can’t find motivation/pleasure in ordinary activities.

“well hey you can trust a rich guy who becomes a politician, but not a politician who becomes rich!” said some poor old white lady who probably shouldn’t trust either

can you browse loops from your lemmy account though? is it really federated if there’s no cross-over? I don’t get it

also ive been using this since reddit api died and apparently I still don’t get it sooo good luck to any of the normies that we want to recruit lol

lol I absolutely agree that TikTok style content is a major contributing factor in mental unwellness (and there’s scientific data supporting that) but you have to understand that is what the majority of people are looking for. and it’s not going away, at least not any time soon, and probably not from any top-down actions of coordinated governance. we gotta accept the reality that like AI it’s part of our world now.

with that said, hey, the parent comment makes a pretty good case for why normies dont federate

it seems daunting to join Lemmy, and without the catalyst forcing you to you never would have joined, right? and that’s probably going to be the default exp for most normies?

does Fediverse have a short form video content platform? cuz that’s what people really care about these days

(also side note, we all really should avoid or limit short form video content consumption…)