froggebip

a frogge biþ a smal beaste

  • he/they

about me

  • fan of "bideo james"
  • programmer
  • anarcho communist
  • man-shaped enby guy
  • adhd


like, it's a fun format, don't get me wrong, but the way it and Reels, Shorts, Snap Stories et al. are designed means you get a constant feed of noisy bullshit that's hard to pause.

when my wife is scrolling reels it is impossible to talk to her because of the uninterruptible cascade of Content™️

it is literally pausable, yes, but the ergonomics of pausing a Reel are so fucking bad that I don't want to bother her to try it. but we're both so ADHD that we'll let scrolling breaks like this last way too long. Anyway I'm glad for networks that aren't abusive by design, like Cohost!


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in reply to @froggebip's post:

I concur, I honestly find the scroll really frustrating and the fact that videos LOOP triggers some weird rage in me, like, I ALREADY heard that, so please stop! Why is it still going. Why is it so loud. I guess the upside of my sound sensitivity is that it's so noisy I turn it off within a few minutes because it gives me anxiety. I feel like a weird outlier amongst ADHD folks that way, because, yeah, I totally see how it could get ridiculously addictive.