| ▲ | watwut 11 hours ago |
| > There should be a law that forces social media companies to use a different algorithm for anyone under a certain age and be required to disclose it to the public. Possibly different algorithm depending on age group. Frankly, in that case I want the kids algorithm. It is preferable for me as an adult, I do not want the intentionally harmful one either. |
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| ▲ | flowrange 11 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| This. Just give me the option to have pagination. Sweet, old, pagination. Like here on Hacker News. I can then review one or maybe 2 pages, and that is all. Like a physical magazine where there's a clear end. I have the firm belief that infinite scrolling is one of the darkest pattern that was ever invented. |
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| ▲ | oneeyedpigeon 11 hours ago | parent [-] | | Hang on... Hacker News very clearly has a complex, opaque [1] algorithm that orders stuff. Maybe it's not user-specific, and maybe that's a good dividing line, but these are the kinds of factors we're going to have to think about if we want to introduce regulation around 'algorithms'. Infinite scrolling is a very different issue (although it's definitely a contributor to the harm, I agree). ([1] Unless I'm being unfair here; maybe the algorithm is available somewhere, I just don't see it obviously linked anywhere) |
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| ▲ | mikeocool 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Yeah, seriously, New York just passed law that makes it illegal to show engagement-driven feeds to kids. I can’t wait to not age verify on instagram and permanently get back a feed that’s only people I follow. |
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| ▲ | oneeyedpigeon 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| You can often do that via settings. But we could do with a law that makes it a crime to override a user setting that has been explicitly set, without notifying the user. |
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| ▲ | jodrellblank 9 hours ago | parent [-] | | Oh but you enabled the setting "don't use infinite scroll" and we've deprecated infinite scroll so that isn't a setting anymore. While improving service for our customers we have introduced "unrolling pages" which prefetches the next page and attaches it to the end of the previous page to provide a smooth reading experience, and of course we've given that its own setting which you haven't set, and it defaults to enabled to provide the best seamless reading experience for most people. Next we're thinking about spatial pages, an innovation which considers the app as a viewport flying over the pages laid out in a line. In consideration we have database-views which presents the unpaged tables of content in the database directly to the end user, completely bypassing outdated 'page' skeuomorphisms from the olden days of printers and books. Further out, our researchers are working on Shepherd Tone-inspired viewing, where technically legally it is paged, but it looks and feels like it isn't! |
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