#subscriptionculture — Public Fediverse posts

📱🧠 Oh look, another soul-searching guide for the screen-zombified masses! Apparently, you can "become a person" again, as if we were just a firmware update away from regaining humanity. 🙄 Is this a self-help article or a poorly disguised plea for subscriptions? 🔄💸
https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/how-to-become-a-person-after-smartphones-have-rotted-your-brain #screenaddiction #selfhelp #digitalwellbeing #humanitylost #subscriptionculture #HackerNews #ngated

📚 This article might as well have been titled "The Life and Death of the Reader's Patience." 💤 Who knew we'd need a subscription just to hear someone lament the #decline of book reviews as if they're an endangered species? 🙄
https://libertiesjournal.com/articles/the-life-and-death-of-the-book-review/ #bookreviews #readerpatience #subscriptionculture #literarycriticism #endangeredspecies #HackerNews #ngated