They are all reward hacking, but tiktok is audiovisual immersion, dating apps are romantic validation and twitter is outrage/information foraging

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toomuchtodo 11 minutes ago | parent [-]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16101310 (2018)

> "Matt Mayberry, who works at a California startup called Dopamine Labs, says it's common knowledge in the industry that Instagram exploits this craving by strategically withholding "likes" from certain users. If the photo-sharing app decides you need to use the service more often, it'll show only a fraction of the likes you've received on a given post at first, hoping you'll be disappointed with your haul and check back again in a minute or two."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28763413 also speaks to this.

(Dopamine Labs is now boundless.ai, only one example, the reward hacking mentioned is everywhere in socials, adult content, sports betting, for reward maxxing)

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doctoboggan 7 minutes ago | parent [-]

I think that should be illegal. I don’t know how to legislate it in a way that makes sense and actually accomplishes the goal (or if that’s even possible), but I would support someone trying to figure it out.

	▲	gunsle 4 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Full social media ban, problem solved. There’s no point wasting more time discussing these things when they’re very obviously a large net negative on society.
	▲	toomuchtodo 6 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Call your state and federal representatives, it's the only way. Run for office if you have the appetite for it.