I’m no expert of the brain but I imagine seeing content fine-tuned to induce a strong emotional reaction is not good for long term wellbeing.
Is this what’s making people angry online? Maybe…
If nostr manages to give more power to the end user to decide what they want to see, that’s gotta be a big plus for people around the globe.
💯 When people complain it's quiet in here, I'm like, ya cause they're all becoming more mentally healthy and probably enjoying the summer 🏝️ 🌞😂 not angrily checking their phone for the latest anger pr0n. Nostr CEO says unlimit vacation for all.
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Yes those algos deliberately show you things that make you angry because it gets more engagement.
Nostr fixes this.
the j curve of hate is real online
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👉 = wow that’s cool, look at this
👈 = this motherfucker
👆 = no reaction
The worst part is that rage is addicting.
It's going to be an interesting experiment: how much of that was the recommender algos, and how much was people chasing superstimulus?
I think mostly algo and clickbait to blame. When you are so dependent on fighting for attention scraps, things get ugly and desperate. It feels like nostr is the first solution that actually enables everyone to win together as everything is now interoperable.
You're close. Time spent on an app (the goal, to increase visibility time for advertisements) increases with increased "engagement". By optimizing for engagement you are increasing/predicting the chance that a user will have their attention on specific posts regardless of what type of engagement that is. Turns out, the posts that generate the most engagement are inflammatory and creates psycho physical stress responses within the users.
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It feels legitimately good to get zapped. Nothing on any other platform comes close
The problem is that people seek strong emotional reactions in a world that bores them with jobs they don't enjoy. It's what makes them want to use social media. For excitement. You are right tho, its not healthy. I don't think nostr will solve it. I just saw a post on here saying how great it could be to have AI serve us recommendations based on interests and past posts. But if what interests us is emotioanl reactions the AI will figure that out and serve us those. I think thats how facebook / twitter already work.
