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Re:What Should Be Done About Social Media? by mgraczyk on Monday November 16, 2020 @11:21PM (#25120232)
Most people strongly prefer when you don't show them a chronologically ordered feed.

I don't think we should design our legal frameworks around arbitrary user-hostile restrictions.

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Re:What Should Be Done About Social Media? by Shish2k on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @05:22AM (#25122056)
^ this. Even among people who claim to prefer chonological feeds, double-blind tests show a strong preference for algorithmic feeds.

If grandparent is saying “algorithmic feeds are so popular-yet-dangerous that we should regulate them like alcohol” then ok, that’s a valid starting point - but we should at least acknowledge that this is user-hostile in the short term.

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