| ▲ | rustyhancock 3 hours ago | ||||||||||||||||
As is the incessant stream. If there is a pause at all in the next video loading the addicted user can break free. One of the issues with federated anything is that there will be good servers and bad servers. Good servers get hammered, and if you're popular you might end up perversely paying for people to watch your videos having to fund your server to maintain its performance. This happened with mastadon, matrix and will be far worse if they want to deliver tiktoks insane performance. | |||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | echelon 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | ||||||||||||||||
Birth rates took a dip with broadband, smartphones, and TikTok. Dopamine and attention sinks are pulling society in directions counter to evolutionary programming. Our runtime algorithms optimize for different things. No value judgment, but it's interesting. I haven't had kids (yet?), and I feel the internet (and the career that revolves around it) is the biggest reason why. | |||||||||||||||||
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