Because I'm an adult, rather than a sheep for you to control, and I much prefer being shown things in my interest (via recommendation alg) rather than things in the general populations interest. In fact, I wish I could upload my own recommendation model to all the social media, to curate it better, and put some black holes near topics I want to avoid, with the option to fuzz it a bit for exploration.
But what about the actual content? People aren't scared of social media because you can message people, it's because of the short form videos. How are you supposed to have an offline version of that?
So it's ok if hackernews "manipulated (me) into (needing) to spend more time on them artificially" because it's tech? Can you see the mental gymnastics is you're having to pull up make this work?
Nope, the key difference is the blast radius, with hn you might buy into very specific policies related to tech while on TikTok you can be exposed to seemingly endless directions even though you just wanted to watch tech.
> can be exposed to seemingly endless directions even though you just wanted to watch tech.
Oh you mean like Google search or maybe Wikipedia? Are we still talking about social media here because "exposed to seemingly endless directions even though you just wanted to watch tech." could happen on any website...
