Social media use linked with depression, secondary trauma during COVID-19 | Penn State University
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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.
  • @uhoh
    6•4 years ago

    I think a lot of people forget that proprietary software has the incentive to be addictive

    • DessalinesA
      3•4 years ago

      It’d be worth it to brainstorm on ways we can make lemmy not addictive. Unfortunately the live-updates thing probably fights against that :(

      • @AgreeableLandscape
        4•4 years ago

        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?

      • @AgreeableLandscape
        2•4 years ago

        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.

      • मुक्त
        1•4 years ago

        Need vs want.

        • What is the need for live updates?
        • At what frequency does one need to be updated?
    • @Rumblestiltskin
      3•4 years ago

      As the Fediverse grows it will become more like other big social media. At least it is an open protocol and the smart people working on the code can figure out how to filter the useless stuff.

        • @Rumblestiltskin
          3•4 years ago

          The great thing about being an open protocol is that anybody can fork a client and add any new moderation functions or change the content suggestion model. I think this is the main advantage a distributed system has to the centralised systems we see now. The user can choose what client to use and therefore how the social network data is presented to them.