RE: Not Another Voyeur
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I mean... it's just so much easier.
In the time it took me to read your post, I could have mindlessly looked at 100 images on Instagram, 50 Tik Tok videos or a bunch of tweets. To read your post I have to follow a train of thought throughout paragraphs, and potentially even have my own thoughts about your content as well. It just takes way more effort to hang out on Hive, but I do think projects like LikeTu and Leo Threads might help that imbalance a bit.
The other side is that the content on Instagram and Twitter is just vast. There is so much content on those sites that it's impossible to consume everything generated in one day... so you can just hang out in your niches and not worry about anything else.
I don't think there's anything wrong with soaking in passivity though, people need brain breaks, and I think that's why easy TV shows like Friends or The Office will always always always be more popular than more intense programs... people need time off, life is hectic.
Also... when are we going to see you in a swimsuit dagnammit?!?
Own thoughts? The horror!
And yeah, there is some balance increasing.
The amount of content is also interesting on the other platforms. More is being added to YouTube than can possibly ever be consumed - most of it is bot generated. Weird.
And yeah, I think there isn't an issue with mindless consumption, but when all consumption is mindless, the mind follows suit.
There are one or two out there... though hopefully nothing recent :D