> If you’ve ever sat down at a slot machine, you will likely note that they are constantly making noises as you interact with them. These sounds are designed to stimulate the reward center in your brain and thus cause it to release endorphins.

Okay, but: if you sit down among a group of your friends chatting, you’ll similarly hear them constantly making noises that stimulate the reward center in your brain. Yet we don’t consider that harmful. And that’s just as valid an analogy for Twitter. I mean, you can literally use Twitter to chat with friends.

Perhaps I should say both analogies are valid, and Twitter combines aspects of both.

> Try muting the notifications from Twitter or Mastodon and see if you remain interested in it: odds are, after a while, you won’t.

I muted all notification on my mastodon app years ago but I keep visiting it once or twice a day.

Internet is not the prominent two or three social media platforms. One can use the first without even ever visiting the latter.

I cannot add enough grievance when I say wholeheartedly, Let's keep it about technology and engineering, please

those platforms can easily be taken over if access is given or sought out by the indiv. We don't have a law that states ine must be granted to water in the usa do we? You can go live in socal if u want but most seek out water, the value tech gives isn't great enough, it could be and will be though.