SocialMedia is part of your daily diet - so why not make it healthy?

Corporate platforms feed you ads, algorithms, and infinite scroll designed to keep you hooked on junk food. The #Fediverse is different:

✅ No ads, no algorithms ✅ Real communities run by real people ✅ Diverse cultures and positive content

Stop feeding on junk. Switch to something organic!

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  • veee@lemmy.caEnglish
    49·
    2 years ago

    Bold of you to assume there is a healthy form of doom scrolling.

    • GamingChairModel@lemmy.worldEnglish
      20·
      2 years ago

      Exactly. To extend the junk food analogy, this is like making donuts from scratch in your own kitchen: customized to your preferences, maybe tastes better, but ultimately you’re still making a mess in your kitchen and eating unhealthy.

  • LambdaRX@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    21·
    2 years ago

    I definitely don’t think, that federation is a cure for unhealthy social media. You can waste time here too.

  • MHLoppy@fedia.io
    17·
    2 years ago

    organic food for your brain

    High quality, positive content boosts mental health

    Browsing shallow memes and political outrage here is basically just home-made junk food instead of store-bought junk food. Likely less unhealthy, but that’s not exactly eating a bowl of vegetables lol - that would perhaps be reading a book or something. Not a great fit for the comparison imo.

    (as an aside, it seems plausible that junk food in small quantities as part of a balanced diet might boost mental health vs strictly never indulging)

  • m_f@midwest.socialEnglish
    15·
    2 years ago

    TBH, I think this is a little counterproductive. It makes corporate social media seem like a delicious treat. Exhorting people to do the right thing like “eat your veggies” probably isn’t the best way to convince them. Something like this seems like a better comparison. Something bad for you and gross, but uses flashy marketing to convince you otherwise:

  • tamal3@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    I wish my app would give an option to have pages rather than an infinite feed.

  • wiki_me@lemmy.mlEnglish
    22·
    2 years ago

    I am someone who kinda tries to live a more healthy lifestyle, if somebody tells me there is something that is good for my health i expect some scientific research to provide evidence of that. the health industry does provide things that have no scientific evidence that they are effective (so called “big placebo” companies).