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I wonder if we can have a continuum of "doom scrolling".

For instance digital crack (tiktok )<->X/facebook<->hackernews<->wikipedia<->"soft" novels<->poetry<->james joyce<->legal texts

At some point any information stream can become susceptible to self-reinforcing doom scrolling. Reading novels is probably better than tiktok but could easily become unhealthy. I mostly weaned myself off of traditional social media but find it very easy to have a quick glance at hacker news and notice hours have gone by.

>>sriach+(OP)
Chuckled on “legal texts”, imagined a person so desperate and not getting any endorphins from “usual stuff” anymore, so only proprietary and very expensive CAD software’s EULA reading makes them “high”.