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I was only discussing the definition of a disorder. But if you want to get into sophistry and impotent political venting, sure. If 60% of people can't make connections with others or hold down a job because of their mental health, I question anyone who would call that anything but a disordered society, and that includes you saying it's "the order of things."

That said, this is an informal self-reported poll with a possibly exaggerated headline. It's entirely possible the actual disorder most of GenZ has is self-diagnosis and identity culture, in which if one doesn't have a disorder or three, one becomes the weirdo in a group.

I found this line from the article especially telling:

The survey also showed that 2 out of 5 go to therapy and 53 percent have gotten professional help for mental health at some point.

Notice how 53% is less than 60? And we'd have to assume each and every one of the 53% was diagnosed with an anxiety disorder on those "at some point" visits to come close to supporting the headline's claim.

I think if measurable socioeconomic markers supported the 60% number, it would be bigger news. Are they more anxious, sure. But again... anxiety does not imply anxiety disorder. As it stands, publishing inaccurate headlines like this makes people take the real issues -- and there ARE a lot of big, pervasive societal issues at play -- less seriously.

(And because I know y'all need to hear it: if you, dear reader, have a professional diagnosis, none of this is talking about you.)

You interpreted the word "prevent" more strictly than I meant it I think, but you're not wrong.

The key word is "disorder" though.

Everyone experiences anxiety from time to time, just like everyone has minor bouts of depression or invasive compulsions. Some non-disordered might even still experience them often.

Not everyone experiences these feelings pervasively to a degree it prevents them from socioeconomic success (making friends, going outside, finding and keeping a job, etc).

Hey man, as long as you had fun.

People see it as a way to spread awareness about the fediverse alternatives that are out there. Like "hey, if you like this, there's more where that came from." It's not for viewers who are already here, but for those where the post inevitably travels.

I dunno. Both watermarking and being annoyed at the watermarks seem like a waste of energy to me. If people are going to generate content, I'm not going to sass them about how unless it makes something about the content worse (harder to read etc).

I gotta say, I thought your first comment was some kind of madly wild, baseless, bitter accusation stemming from heavy disillusionment with reddit and assumption that spez must surely represent the worst of us.

The fact that you actually have a source for that madness and interpreted that source accurately is the most mindblowing thing I've seen in a while. That really is quite an article.

I mean, it's a different story if you're held personally responsible for shrink. You have to feed yourself too. Tough situation.

Are they still working on buffing the shit out of the same modern day protagonist as before or what? I only got about halfway through Odyssey (but looked up the ending) and skipped Valhalla.

Thanks for the archive link OP, mods removed the post by the time I got to it. (Though the comment section is still intact, for now)

I don't mind the lower quantity - that's expected on a small platform - but I'm definitely not enjoying the lower quality.

I think the issue here is that there's a sweet spot where quantity and quality are in equilibrium. You NEED a certain quantity before you have a high chance of finding insightful comments on a given topic -- to simplify things, if there's a 1% chance a given comment is going to be from an expert with great insight, you have a ~9.6% chance of finding that on a post with 10 comments and a ~63% chance of finding that on a post with 100 comments. The threadiverse just hasn't hit that threshold yet.

Of course, there's a tipping point which reddit is long past, where higher and higher quantities start to drown out the insightful posts with memes and quips, or downvote and mock them with a confidently wrong counter-opinion the mob wants to hear more.

I hope the barriers to entry with decentralized services that the masses find "confusing" are such that we eventually manage to reach equilibirum and not tip too terribly far past it.

It's like using a very fine-grit sandpaper on your legs, so if that's what you were imagining... yes? Maybe? You basically slowly buff off the hair.

Consider yourself lucky and walk away like you just dodged a bullet