I think its not just kids anymore, it’s adults too. Everyone is glued to their screens these days. But kids are more vulnerable to influences from “social” media and don’t have any defences to the psychological warfare going on. Of course they feel like shit.

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      without any shitty engagement algorithm.

      There, fixed it for you—the extra word is important. Algorithms are evil only if used for the wrong purposes.

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      Technically lemmy has lots of algorithms. It wouldn’t work without any

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        Tbf they did say shitty, none of the ones built into Lemmy exist to feed you advertisements in the most efficient manner, as far as I know.