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nobodywillobsrvtoday at 7:18 AM1 replyview on HN

It's worth stating that addictive tech is addictive partly because it doesn't work very well.

So they build useful things and then make them pretty bad and less useful. If they were useful your interest or need would complete and you would move on.

Fundamentally I think it is important to say this. Addiction confounds some things in the space of designed systems


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Quarrelsometoday at 7:21 AM

Spot on. Like how Facebook used to be quite useful to stay in touch with friends, or how dating websites used to be kinda decent to find like-MINDED people but have now all been enshittified in order to keep people on them.