Yes. that has to be borne in mind, discussing social media as if HN was some other "more elevated" platform.

What I have noticed is that doomscrolling is like MSG. It's a great hit on the appetite, but it doesn't last. Maybe all sugar hits are like that. Unlike MSG, it will I think continue to be a root cause negative on attention span. MSG is just very rapid "yummy" and all the negative flak was like the yellow rain of bee shit, not actually chemical warfare as we were told by the doom scroll of the day: TV news.