After successfully recuperating tiktok, politicians are going to once again exploit pseudo-science to outlaw the “infinite scroll.” Get ready for the comeback of the pager. Thanks libs!
Infinite scroll amplifies the “I’m never going to find that again” problem. That’s the thing I hate most about it.
A feature, not a bug. If you never find it you spend more time trying to find it and therefore see more of what they want you to see.
Misleading headline, it’s only one of multiple “addictive features” they’re considering banning to make social media less addictive.
Dammit EU. Do I like you or hate you. Pick a lane.
i personally have pushed back on every “infinite scrolling” feature request from product designers. first, you think you need it; you don’t. second, you think it’s just so nifty! it isn’t. oh is your content is dynamically generated? what was wrong with Reddit’s pager that launched that site into popularity?
it’s unnecessary complexity that hides information from the user, makes API calls (which are, spoilers, paginated) more complicated, can cause the obvious memory/resource consumption issues, and just generally disempowers the user. which i guess on a social media app is the point. but totally counter to the goals of a fleet management system lol
Thank you. Infinite pagers are such poor usability, just all around annoying. I really don’t understand why people want them unless it’s developers saying “this is cool”
I do not argue the infinite scrolling is good or bad. I am against the regulation itself. Who are the people that want to tell me which tech solution I am allowed to use or implement? Mostly I am not a fan of big tech but people should take responsibility for their actions and stay free. The goverments are here to serve and I do not pay for this service. Who are those that need to be protected from themselves by governmental authorities? Children, ok. People with damaged brain, ok. But otherwise? Give me a break.
It’s children and teenagers, nobody wants to take away your doomscrolling.
I think this is a good thing conceptually, but in reality there are problems like age verification and stuff…
LET’S GOOOO
I don’t like infinite scroll.
Voyager (lemmy) has paged scroll and it let’s me.know when I’ve wasted enough time.
Unlike say, Instagram…
I’m surprised Slashdot still exists.
I miss the cmdrtaco days of /. lol.
I don’t remember what I was downloading the other day, but I ended up on SourceForge. I forgot that existed too. Don’t visit without an ad blocker though.
Brussels has told the company to change several key features, including disabling infinite scrolling, setting strict screen time breaks and changing its recommender systems.
I’m not really a rabid fan of infinite scrolling myself, but setting aside the question of whether the state should regulate this sort of thing (I’d say no, but I’m in the US and Europeans can do whatever they want as long as it’s not affecting me), in all seriousness, it seems like it should be client-side. Like, we have
prefers-color-schemein CSS at the browser/OS level to ask all websites to use dark mode or light mode. If you want to disable infinite scrolling on websites, presumably you want to do so globally and can send that bit (and if you want it on a per-site basis, the browser could have support for a toggle).And if you want screen time break reminders, there’s existing browser-level and OS-level functionality for that. Debian has a number of packages to do just that. I mean, I’d think that the EU can just say “OS vendors in an EU locale should have this feature on by default”, rather than going site-by-site.
We are well past the point where the client decides how hypertext looks. You are talking about feed readers.
I mean that the setting should be client-side. With
prefers-color-scheme, it’s a hint to the website’s CSS design as to what theme to use.
Moral panic slop that will just make the problem worse.
