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  • solsangraal@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    14 days ago

    it’s not an easy addiction to quit. took me forever to finally delete facebook, but the improvement in mental health has been profound. i still spend more time on lemmy than i should, but it’s the only one i use, and it never leaves me in a sour mood

  • Riskable@programming.devEnglish
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    13 days ago

    We estimate the effect of social media Facebook and Instagram deactivation

    FTFY.

    Now that I’ve been on Lemmy (and other federated social media) for a few years it has become abundantly clear that not all social media is created equal.

    The big social media platforms are designed and activity manipulated in order to stress you out and keep you engaged. Federated social media is much more organic and doesn’t have that problem.

    I mean, it can still stress you out but not in the same way. For example, every cruel dumpster fire that comes out of Republican governance stresses me out but that’s the news. It’d stress me out even if I heard it from NPR.

    Whereas if I read that same news from Facebook I’ll also get to read racist high school classmate’s take and see my own family members “liking” and “loving” similar hateful messages. Facebook will then notice how “engaged” I became when I reply pointing out how wrong they are (with lots of references/links to reality) and fill my feed with more stressful garbage that reminds me just how much many of the people I know are complete shit human beings.

    So yeah, just a bit different 🤣

    I want to see a similar study done on people who regularly read/post to LinkedIn. Firstly, so I can find out, “who TF even are these people‽” And secondly, to find out if they were insane before they started doing that or if LinkedIn pushed them over the edge.