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title: "The case for dopamine dispensers"
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subtitles: "Likes and clicks and green badges and comments and analytics and ____ can be helpful, actually"
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author: ["Amolith"]
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published: 2023-02-26T23:09:00-05:00
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categories: ["Technology"]
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tags: ["TODO"]
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draft: true
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toc: false
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---
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Dopamine dispensers --- likes on social media platforms, stars on GitHub, clicks
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on your website, etc. --- are inherently damaging and lead only to addiction ...
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is what I used to say. Lately, I've begun thinking otherwise. They absolutely
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are dangerous and can promote harmful behaviour, _but in moderation_, I believe
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that they can be quite helpful.
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[pra]: /privacy-respecting-analytics/
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There are a few examples I often see vilified and I'll address each one:
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- Social media "likes" (fediverse favourites, Reddit upvotes, etc.)
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- GitHub stars
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- Website views
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# Software development
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- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31963467
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- https://ntietz.com/blog/moving-off-github/
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- https://lists.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/sr.ht-discuss/%3CF98B7AC8-6EAF-4884-9C3B-DA3711BE7085%40traduction-libre.org%3E#%3CCBMEJKAUK9CL.34S27FE2XA4G0@taiga%3E
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- https://www.coss.community/cossc/ocs-2020-breakout-drew-devault-4407
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- https://drewdevault.com/2019/05/24/What-is-a-fork.html
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# Website traffic
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# Social media
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This is perhaps the more dangerous
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