By now you’ve almost certainly heard the news that Meta has settled with 52 state and local Attorneys General who had sued the company in some form or another over child safety on Meta’…
I think it should be possible to change the behavior of scrolling globally via browser plugin. Maybe there is already a plugin? I made a note to look into it. No promises.
that’s why I’m here :) was talking about social media in general, fb insta etc. any auto recommendation I’d want to throw out. of course popular, hot new most comment etc are fine when there’s an option
In other words they want age verification laws so they can make their dangerous addictive product less addictive for teens specifically?
Not really.
Say, which features would you like for yourself? One could include them in Fediverse clients.
No infinite scrolling is a big one, making one have to manually go to the next page of content helps add natural break points.
I think it should be possible to change the behavior of scrolling globally via browser plugin. Maybe there is already a plugin? I made a note to look into it. No promises.
100% the non algorithmic feed, they word it as only being available to teens. I want that, and I’m old.
Lemmy already has that. Or are you looking for non-personalized recommendations?
that’s why I’m here :) was talking about social media in general, fb insta etc. any auto recommendation I’d want to throw out. of course popular, hot new most comment etc are fine when there’s an option
No! Algorithm bad because reasons.
Sorting by hot or active is an algorithm. Hell, sorting by post recency is too.