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Re:The great digital fatigue: How digital burnout is changin... by TomMasz on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @07:48AM (#48905282)
Social media isn't "social" anymore. It's algorithmically designed to keep you scrolling. Burnout is inevitable.
Re:The great digital fatigue: How digital burnout is changin... by gnoll_of_gozag on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @08:12AM (#48905561)
big normie social media yes, but people still have hella actual conversations on bluesky and mastodon and (i think) they use chronological fields by default
Re:The great digital fatigue: How digital burnout is changin... by assimpleaspossi on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @08:39AM (#48905892)
And then, tomorrow, it will be some other social media platform because someone said something wrong on one of those. Because they have to. Not because they need to.
Re:The great digital fatigue: How digital burnout is changin... by inigyou on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @09:14AM (#48906360)
What?
Re:The great digital fatigue: How digital burnout is changin... by assimpleaspossi on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @09:19AM (#48906419)
You heard me.
Re:The great digital fatigue: How digital burnout is changin... by pasquinelli on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @09:32AM (#48906613)
yeah but what you're saying is unclear.

for instance, when you say because they have to, not because they need to...

"have to" and "need to" mean the same thing, so i'm left with the choice of concluding your post is just mush or asking you to rephrase what you're trying to say in a way that's intelligible.

Re:The great digital fatigue: How digital burnout is changin... by assimpleaspossi on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @09:42AM (#48906732)
Perhaps I should have written "because they feel they have to and not because they need to."
Re:The great digital fatigue: How digital burnout is changin... by inigyou on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @10:33AM (#48907557)
that's the second half of the comment. Can you also explain the first half?
Re:The great digital fatigue: How digital burnout is changin... by peaseagee on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @09:24AM (#48906494)
Say what you mean and you might be better received.
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Re:The great digital fatigue: How digital burnout is changin... by Guthwine on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @10:03AM (#48907071)
I'm pretty sure "don't be snarky" is one of the first 5 sentences on the site rules.
Re:The great digital fatigue: How digital burnout is changin... by tancop on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @02:30PM (#48911140)
i switched from twitter to bluesky and the first thing i noticed was the feed looking really boring so i almost quit. turns out the default is following only but then i found a great third party feed at [foryou.club] and now i can use it without getting bored. thank god for spacecowboy and their gaming pc.