In theory. Society doesn’t see it that way though. Most societies for example have limitations on access to heroine as a significant portion of the population is not able to effectively achieve control and moderation which leads to harm to self and others. This is similar. When something hijackss brain chemistry this powerfully the solution is typically restricting access at a higher than personal choice level.
The issue is having a device in their hand and nothing better to do. Ban all video if you really want to get to the root of the problem.
Anyone ever say “look out, that usenet feed is endless scrolling! Or my IRC chat just keeps scrolling!”
No, because scrolling is not the problem. This is obviously nothing about scrolling, its about control and monitoring, but if they actually wanted to tackle the underlying issue of addiction, scrolling itself is not it.
I am not going to be told I can’t see endless results on a fucking web page because some dipshit cant stop watching short form videos. Hell, keep the endless scrolling but ban the pictures/and videos. I look at lemmy with basically text and thumbnails, why should I be punished?
I mean, sure. It’s easier to do it on them since they usually have a lot of open source apps that allow disabling infinite scroll. I believe it’d be easier for the EU to regulate the major platforms because the number of platforms would be just a handful, which is easier to enforce.
I use the lemmy web because it doesn’t have infinite scroll, and the version 1.0.0 will allow to select the number of posts the user wishes to see on his feed. Looks pretty cool, you can see here: voyager.lemmy.ml
I’m not the person you asked, but I would be totally fine with that. Being forced to click a Next button is a small price to pay to stop social media platforms that thrive on a continuous stream of ragebait and bad news (or other content feeds crafted to grab your attention).
The platforms that will be hurt the most won’t be the ones on the Fediverse.
Infinite scroll is one of the biggest cancers of the modern digital era. I’d be so happy if this ended on all major platforms.
Why? I don’t want to be inconvienced because you can’t manage yourself.
Why should I have to hit refresh or next page.
This is a you problem.
Good point, they could give us the option to toggle between infinite scroll or not.
In theory. Society doesn’t see it that way though. Most societies for example have limitations on access to heroine as a significant portion of the population is not able to effectively achieve control and moderation which leads to harm to self and others. This is similar. When something hijackss brain chemistry this powerfully the solution is typically restricting access at a higher than personal choice level.
The issue is having a device in their hand and nothing better to do. Ban all video if you really want to get to the root of the problem.
Anyone ever say “look out, that usenet feed is endless scrolling! Or my IRC chat just keeps scrolling!”
No, because scrolling is not the problem. This is obviously nothing about scrolling, its about control and monitoring, but if they actually wanted to tackle the underlying issue of addiction, scrolling itself is not it.
I am not going to be told I can’t see endless results on a fucking web page because some dipshit cant stop watching short form videos. Hell, keep the endless scrolling but ban the pictures/and videos. I look at lemmy with basically text and thumbnails, why should I be punished?
You want to end it on Fediverse apps too, right? Riiight?
I mean, sure. It’s easier to do it on them since they usually have a lot of open source apps that allow disabling infinite scroll. I believe it’d be easier for the EU to regulate the major platforms because the number of platforms would be just a handful, which is easier to enforce.
I use the lemmy web because it doesn’t have infinite scroll, and the version 1.0.0 will allow to select the number of posts the user wishes to see on his feed. Looks pretty cool, you can see here: voyager.lemmy.ml
I’m not the person you asked, but I would be totally fine with that. Being forced to click a
Nextbutton is a small price to pay to stop social media platforms that thrive on a continuous stream of ragebait and bad news (or other content feeds crafted to grab your attention).The platforms that will be hurt the most won’t be the ones on the Fediverse.
^ shill for the pager lobby