Australia's social media ban for children takes effect in world first

Re:Australia's social media ban for children takes effect in... by fireflash38 on Wednesday December 10, 2025 @07:46PM (#46226211)

Interesting. I don't know if you intended it, but algorithm free means no recommendations to me - even no recommended videos alongside existing videos. You want a video? You have to search for something.

I think that is a surprisingly good solution. You can still access educational information, or really whatever videos you want, but you have to actively seek them out rather than ingest whatever is spit out at you.

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Re:Australia's social media ban for children takes effect in... by osn9363739 on Wednesday December 10, 2025 @08:21PM (#46226501)

I've used plugins like unhook in the past which do exactly this and it's nice. Now I just follow channels via rss and block everything else on the page. Same deal.

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Re:Australia's social media ban for children takes effect in... by mat_b on Wednesday December 10, 2025 @09:00PM (#46226746)

Search results are pretty much the same thing though. It's a ranked list of recommended videos. It's just based on your text instead of the video you're watching.

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