Researchers at Penn State and Jinan University discovered that excessive use of social media for COVID-19 health information is related to both depression and secondary trauma.
They say putting a phone into black and white mode can make it a lot less addictive because it’s no longer as flashy, which is part of what triggers dopamine response. Maybe we can apply a similar concept to Lemmy with a mode that gets rid of images and makes the UI less sleek?
We could make it an option. Not just for potentially making it less addicting, but sometimes live updates are distracting when trying to read a thread.
I think a lot of people forget that proprietary software has the incentive to be addictive
It’d be worth it to brainstorm on ways we can make lemmy not addictive. Unfortunately the live-updates thing probably fights against that :(
They say putting a phone into black and white mode can make it a lot less addictive because it’s no longer as flashy, which is part of what triggers dopamine response. Maybe we can apply a similar concept to Lemmy with a mode that gets rid of images and makes the UI less sleek?
We could make it an option. Not just for potentially making it less addicting, but sometimes live updates are distracting when trying to read a thread.
Need vs want.
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