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by nutball 4503 days ago
Social media is work, just like housework is work, and it's about as dull as waged work too. Work is a relationship where some entity extracts surplus value off your unpaid labor.

I like the forced, scrolling text: makes you slow down and pay attention, but also not switch tabs halfway through and get distracted.

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> "slow down and pay attention"

Why do people assume these are always the same thing?

If you read a book at 1/10 your normal speed, I imagine your reading comprehension would drop significantly. It's harder to focus on something when you're constantly distracted by its inappropriate speed, and it's harder to get value out of it when you can't process it in a normal way because you're constantly waiting for the next step.