I think these websites are great tools to help people from different backgrounds come together and keep in touch with friends/family when it is not possible to meet up in person.
It's the "notification" game that I don't like as these big mega corporations/social media outlets know that people look for the hit whenever they post up random things from their day and chase the "like" so to speak. It's just a case of controlling that dopamine urge.
But ultimately, it should be about people and steemit is just another tool to bring people together - one that I happen to like a lot more as I have found an awesome group in the #steemitbloggers and @travelfeed that have welcomed me in and saved me from leaving this platform :)
Yeah, and organizations like Facebook have an entire department of developers called "retention specialists" whose sole function is to tweak the algorithms of people's feeds... in terms of getting people to stay for that dopamine fix.
Steemit is pretty cool in the way it has given rise to self-organizing communities, and you get to really enjoy being part of them. Like Steemitbloggers (which I am also part of).
I know about the "retention specialists" as have seen enough documentaries/videos on YouTube about them from former employees.
I agree that the community feel on steemit with the hundreds if discord channels gives its own kind of "hit" but that's in a good way as you're helping out fellow members and it's a positive spiral 🙂
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