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Doom scrolling is doomed, if the EU gets its way.

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[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 3 points 3 hours ago

The longer your think about it, the worse this idea seems.

[–] Emi@ani.social 20 points 7 hours ago

Good, just don't demand ID. Let parents parent their kids and limit companies abusing biological weaknesses.

[–] AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 0 points 4 hours ago

kek. What will threadiverse, Fediverse, and NaziSky do then?

[–] dieICEdie@lemmy.org 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I mean…. What are they gonna kill next, buttons?

The scroll isn’t the problem, it’s the content.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] dieICEdie@lemmy.org 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Or make the world have no doom.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Dude, if they could pull that off...

[–] dieICEdie@lemmy.org 3 points 4 hours ago

Haha right? No profit in utopia.