@baslow It doesn’t mean any of you all would be a naive developer with a tragic lack in humanities literacy, but… I’ve found myself arguing against letting users opt in for a dispositive of power which is only useful for capitalists, in a way that abuses their users (infinite scrolling). Eugen Rochko himself probably doesn’t understand why Fediverse users call him names under most of what he publishes.
I’m afraid I’ve been off-putting, but I’ve had an extensive experience with capitalistic social media, and I’d like to have a deeper conversation because I don’t want to mansplain any of you but I still want to warn you about things that I haven’t read elsewhere.
But what I’m trying to pinpoint is that the root causes for mental illness may be located outside the mind as well. Education, architecture, the structure of media… (Rather than the media contents themselves: from Twitter to RSS feeds to Gemini to the town library.)