Re:EU Commission: addictive design Instagram and Facebook in...
by xoac on Friday July 10, 2026 @08:33AM
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Exactly. If social media apps had a configurable old style non-algorithmic feed the problem would be dramatically smaller.
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Re:EU Commission: addictive design Instagram and Facebook in...
by Symbiote on Friday July 10, 2026 @09:10AM
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With FBPurity: https://www.fbpurity.com/ I have Facebook on my desktop computer exactly as it used to be in the 2000s when I signed up: content only from my "friends" and a few chosen sources (a band I like etc).
The newsfeed is very slow to load, as to fill the screen the extension must make twenty plus requests while hiding 99% of what Facebook's addiction machine returns.
Re:EU Commission: addictive design Instagram and Facebook in...
by intended on Friday July 10, 2026 @03:53PM
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People prefer the more engaging option, based on testing when preferences are offered.
You aren’t really putting a fair choice here. A product that is tested and refined to be viscerally attractive to our brains, vs will power.
This means you have the illusion of individual choice, with practical addiction at scale.