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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.
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.
No infinite scrolling is a big one, making one have to manually go to the next page of content helps add natural break points.
So, this is kind of embarrassing. I actually did make a note. I would have forgotten to get back to this otherwise. But I might as well have googled it immediately. It took like 2 minutes to find that there are lots of plugins that suppress the infinite scroll. Nothing for me to contribute, I guess.
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.