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bluesky request. do not follow or reward quote-doomers. people who quote an article and only add something like "you have no idea how bad this is" or "it's over" or "say goodbye to everything you love". they succeed from your stress. they're bringing you down with them. stay awake; not like this.

I've been thinking for a while now about building a custom feed that runs simple sentiment analysis and filters out (or at least labels) such posts

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afaik the labels would be entirely optional, I believe they're applied via a moderation service you subscribe to, or a custom feed you add - I'm not entirely sure how that works yet

Like literally normalising the idea of "dopamine cost" when reading posts on social media. Give each post a rating of 1-5 with AI sentiment analysis (because AI is actually very good at stuff like that) and you can literally be like "Ok, I'm feeling burnt out today, gonna be a 1 day on the socials"

Also means that people might end up toning down the hype when they're writing to reach a wider audience. Which absolutely isn't censorship in any way, in fact, shows in a positive light how you can convey exactly the same information freely but in a nuanced, more effective fashion

I think there's valid conversations to be had around content moderation and what people can say freely but also that there is a real cost to words - and not in a "sticks and stones" way but that over-hyped sentiments erode decision making skills, causes fatigue, increases stress etc.