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Yeah, I get you. When I first came here exclusively I was looking for the same dopamine as I was getting from reddit. After, I'm not looking this up, the whistleblower from Facebook talked about anxiety being a better algorithm driver to keep people engaged longer, (?) I don't wonder how many other platforms like reddit, use algorithms to cause addiction. Maybe the answer is breaking the addiction and then coming back at it, on your own terms. I feel like I've broken the addiction. I am able to put Lemmy down. I don't feel like I'm stuck. I did struggle at first because my brain was in the habit of drawing that dopamine in that way, I redirected it to a specialised interest. And leaned into some psychology tricks for manual reset hacking the body, to reduce my anxiety. I like this side where I don't feel that addiction any more. I feel more present in my life now. I read lemmy for half an hour a day with my coffee in the morning or in a doctors office if I'm waiting for a while and such. That dopamine is out there in different ways.