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You know, I agree that the world would be a better place without Meta and its platforms.
But if governments can do things like this to Meta, they can do it to anyone else too, even to fediverse instances; will admins of instances here be sued next because minors liked to use them too much and they/parents/schools/governments claim those instances are "addictive"? Not looking forward to that world.
Fortunately, there's a big difference between Lemmy and Meta social media: no algorithms. Similarly to how reddit worked years ago, you have a page you cater to your needs that displays content based on numeric popularity, not because an algorithm deemed the content to be worth showing. I doubt there'd be much to argue with in court based on that premise alone.
How does Lemmy decide what to display on my front page? I'm not too familiar with that.
I'd imagine it's upvotes and time based, which to me sounds like an algorithm. I recognize it as a better and more fair algorithm but idk how it would be argued in court as being different. But I would love to learn with you.
That sounds like exactly the same thing Reddit does
I don't think reddit does that anymore.
I think they still do for r/all but you can't even access it on mobile, it has to be your personalized feed tooled for maximum engagement.