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Welcome to Lemmy Shitpost. Here you can shitpost to your hearts content.

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Before you put a minus, read carefully, don't be an asshole because it's easier that way...

-- I don't know if you've noticed, but because of memes, people relax and, so to speak, forget about their worries, and some degrade almost to the level of monkeys. You can, of course, downvote the post as much as you want if you're offended, I don't care if you don't believe me. Honestly, I've noticed this degradation in myself and this oblivion, like everything is fine, so I know what I'm talking about. It's like memes act on the mind like TikTok, and if you consume them too often, you can notice this effect, I guess I'll call it "voluntary distraction."

-- In short, I'm currently taking a course of anti-memes and anti-short videos, or just stupid videos. So to speak, I'm self-medicating since psychologists are no use and I feel sorry for the money, damn it. Because I became too absent-minded.

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[โ€“] benni@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I actually agree that they have similar effects if consumed similarly. Avoiding the mass consumption of short-form, attention-grabbing content is a great choice when you notice a decline in your ability to focus. I've occasionally done the same thing in my life, sometimes even cutting internet usage more radically than that, and it always created strongly noticeable improvements (or rather noticeable returns to my more natural state of mind).

That being said, I still browse lemmy memes and think it's somewhat different from similar media for several reasons (these are broad generalizations, of course there are exceptions):

  • Memes are more honest as they're mainly aimed at making you laugh, and you can easily verify yourself whether you found them funny or not. Short-form videos will often contain stories, advice, or information, the value or danger of which you cannot verify so easily.
  • At least if you're looking in the right communities, memes are from the community members itself, not some slop by some influencer trying to get clicks at any price.
  • I can browse through top of the day of my lemmy meme communities in a relatively short amount of time, get some enjoyment out of it, and then just move on with my life. I don't think there is an equivalent platform for short videos. They want to keep you scrolling endlessly.

The first ones are trying to make money off of us, and the second ones are trying to make us stupid and easily manipulated by imposing clip thinking.