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Non-fediverse social media is designed to be addictive because that's how the people running it make money.
What do you mean non-fediverse? How does Federation affect addictiveness?
Algorithmically curated timelines are designed to be addictive. Fediverse doesn't have that, it's time based, like it used to be before.
It CAN be time based, but there's also a "hot" and an "active" sorting. Both of which are "algorithms".
It's a lot more simple of an algorithm, and doesn't intentionally push specific topics, but if you open https://lemmy.world/ anonymously, you'll see a default "All/Active" feed which is sorted by engagement.