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[โ€“] Ducks@ducks.dev 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The modern world is the enemy of attention spans, that's all there is to it I think

[โ€“] Ubermeisters@discuss.online 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It might be a trivial difference, but I think it's an important distinction to say that the reciprocal is more true (probably what you meant anyway): Attention spans are the enemy of the modern world.

There's so much research that goes into user engagement Etc in order to control and manipulate the human attention span, I don't think it's fair to make it sound like it's the "attention span's fault" necessarily, when there's so many entities actively vying for it.