quat 🐉 (quat@woof.group)'s status on Friday, 20-Dec-2024 15:02:44 JST

They optimize for longer and longer engagement periods and it does *work*, like, people actually are using their phones more. People are used to scrolling and getting fed content from the content machine. You go delete Twitter and since your attention span is now garbage, the new *huge* gap in your schedule is overwhelmingly likely to just be filled by a different app you haven't deleted yet, because our lives have been hollowed out to make more time for apps