Doom scrolling is doomed, if the EU gets its way.
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Good, just don’t demand ID. Let parents parent their kids and limit companies abusing biological weaknesses.
I mean…. What are they gonna kill next, buttons?
The scroll isn’t the problem, it’s the content.
If they really want to stop the doom scrolling, they need to make let’s dance against Algorithms. The algorithms are the addictive part. It’s not the scrolling that’s hurting anyone.
What if I said you’re addicted to the scroll. Your next hit is just one scroll away. Go on, scroll once more!
But Oracle, I’m on Lemmy, If I scroll for more than 45 minutes, I run out of content.
I’m on Voyager
It’s a good feature, Apollo had it too!
Or make the world have no doom.
Dude, if they could pull that off…
Haha right? No profit in utopia.
You’re comparing a dark pattern to a basic interface element. It’s not like they’re talking about scrolling itself,
And infinite scrolling absolutely is a problem on its own, regardless of content.
The ability to scroll down forever is not something a government should control.
We need accountability not bullshit laws.
By blaming a user interface, the rich have tricked you into allowing them to keep doing what they are doing. If this passes, you’ll be placated. Something is “being done” but that’s just a lie they told you to believe.
The CONTENT is the problem.
I can see where you’re coming from, in light of EU policy proposals like Chat Control. But that doesn’t mean everything that comes out of them is problematic.
We need accountability not bullshit laws.
Well this is accountability. By making this a law, companies can actually be fined about it.
Infinite scrolling is a dark pattern. It’s not used to help you, it’s used to get you addicted.
The CONTENT is the problem.
Both are. The content and the manipulative addictive design decisions.
Ok well let’s ban all scrolling. Scrollbars too. Everything has to be pages with buttons. Including file browsers. Can’t have those getting out of hand. Don’t even get me started on file previews
I also get what you mean. Petty laws are just the system’s way of more make-belief instead of fundamental true change. Also, infinite scroll is a horrible addiction pattern and it’s still a separate thing than regular scrolling of a finite amount of data.
So should stock photography websites also be banned from allowing a scroll that is technically finite at 10 billion images or… are we offering exclusions that can be easily abused? Technically, there is a finite number of twitter and Snapchat posts if they never repeat previously viewed items.
Good luck making that an enforceable law!! And, enjoy the false hope.
Oh I’m not enforcing it. I just get that it’s one of those poison things in social media
I would prefer them to go after mechanisms like this over tying all web activity to IDs I guess, but punishing and penalizing companies that have clear ill intent and demonstrate a lack of moral scruples seems the most efficient way to address the issues we’re seeing with social media design.
It’s all bureaucratic nonsense that will get nothing done, and just placates people while the companies continue to do the same thing they always have with a different mechanism.
This is more pathetic than a US democrat offering cheaper health insurance instead of socialized healthcare.
This is the “we need people to drive less to save the environment so let’s block all those new electric cars everyone wants that’ll slow em down” equivalent
The longer your think about it, the worse this idea seems.
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kek. What will threadiverse, Fediverse, and NaziSky do then?
threadiverse
- Piefed already uses paging
- Lemmy already uses paging
- Mbin already uses paging
- NodeBB already has opt-in paging
The only threadiverse software that does not support paging is Discourse. Considering most people aren’t even aware that one is federated to begin with, I doubt the threadiverse in particular is going to have any problem at all.
for posts, you’re correct. for loading comments in a post, all these paginate?
You’re right, I didn’t think of that. Lemmy does seem to use infinite scrolling for comments, though I don’t have an account, so I can’t check if there’s a setting to change that.
Mbin and NodeBB are the same as for posts though, Mbin uses paging by default, NodeBB has it opt-in. And Piefed doesn’t let me sort by amount of comments, so can’t check there.
why would it? There are limited replies to a single post, but there are potentially unlimited posts to doomscroll
infinite scrolling
