Comment by neutronicus

Comment by neutronicus 6 hours ago

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You're on HN, though. In some sense, reeling in people like you has been a solved problem for decades, since forums were invented.

I apologize for what is doubtless egregious projection on my part.

I am like you in the sense that I seem "immune" to TikTok/Reels, especially relative to my wife, who can definitely get sucked into it for 30-60 minutes. However, I'm easily-snared by things like "the last year of drama in the NixOS community". I can easily spend an hour I don't have reading forum threads in which people are accusing moderators of abusing their position in a forum about a piece of technology I don't use.

So in some sense the tech industry didn't need to "innovate" in order to suck me in. I was getting sucked into reading about web forum drama 20 years ago.