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Algorithmic Addiction from Social Media consumption. An analogy would be Caffeine addiction from coffee consumption.
Most people who use smartphones are addicts and are far from being aware of it.
I only browse lemmy 6 hours a day, there's no way I'm addicted!
I can stop whenever I want!
I will show you, I will close the app right know!
edit: I'm back. See? I told you I could do it.
I haven't found enough content on Lemmy to keep me interested daily...
I'm jealous. All of the productive things I would do...
Yeah I'm feeling that. I thought I had kicked up, but Lemmy is getting too good lately...
And Lemmy isn't even intentionally employing dark patterns to drive up my engagement.
I don't know if you are using the web UI or an app, but I found that if you use a mobile app it gets even more addictive. I had to delete Connect from my phone because it made it easier to just sit and scroll. Now I'm doing that on the web anyway, argh...
I haven't yet become addicted to Lemmy. Still relapsing from a decade of Reddit. I barely remember how to live without it.