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Why does everything seem like clickbait?
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SEO and the attention economy are the main drivers of clickbait that are increasingly pervasive in our lives.
Since we don't like to pay for stuff, advertisers are competing over our limited headspace, to get us just to think about them enough to spend money (preferably in a recurring manner so that you forget you're paying when your attention is driven elsewhere).
I dunno how you made it here to Lemmy, but I'd consider it a step towards searching and contributing to communities and their contents that are user driven instead of advertiser driven, and finding things that you are interested in rather than being force-fed to you. This is how I like to use the internet, anyway. Maybe I'm getting o l d.
I try to contribute when I can. I miss organic feedback and interaction.
You wrote you like new and creative content. How do you like this?
I'm sorry if it feels contrived. In my opinion it's like a combustion engine that needs to be primed, you need some activity, even if mostly from power users or people posting for the sake of it to get things going...
Even Reddit started out with company employees pretend to be random people posting and commenting with each other, what we have is way more organic than that, at least.
*As someone correctly points out, maybe taking a break from being online all the time can help you better connect with the world around you, if you find yourself frustrated and bitter.