• StarryPhoenix97@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    Yeah, I’m tired and got snippy myself. It’s late and I should be asleep. There’s a thread-bare line between keeping a line of dialogue open and being suseptible to brainwashing. It’s hard to self-regulate sometimes.

    Sorry about that. The instinct to just bark at someone online is pavlovian. Trained into us by doom scrooling and happy chemicals from having the behavior upvoted.

    I wrote a paper on it actually. More people should try to be aware of how many ways they’re getting happy chemicals from comments and upvotes.

    I try to keep social media (in general) framed as a casino.