Brussels is going head-to-head with social media platforms to change addictive design.

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

The European Commission is for the first time tackling the addictiveness of social media in a fight against TikTok that may set new design standards for the world’s most popular apps.

    • Lvxferre [he/him]@mander.xyz
      12·
      6 hours ago

      IIRC Dessalines (Lemmy and Jerboa frontend dev) once said to regret adding infinite scrolling, and the only reason he didn’t remove the feature is because people would rage. So odds are Jerboa will be one of the first to comply.

      And… frankly? As much as I criticise Lemmy devs, I think Dessalines is right in this one.

      • Mihies@programming.devEnglish
        2·
        2 hours ago

        But why? I don’t mind infinite scrolling here. And an option to opt in/out and everybody’s happy I suppose.

      • saimen@feddit.org
        2·
        5 hours ago

        I am so braindead I can’t even imagine how it would work without endless scrolling?

        • vodka@feddit.org
          14·
          5 hours ago

          X amount of posts before it stops scrolling. Then you’d have a classic “next page” button like we used to.

          Basically you add a conscious choice to keep going, and creating a much more natural stopping point.

        • karashta@piefed.socialEnglish
          6·
          5 hours ago

          You reach the bottom of the feed and have to click something to load another page or reload the forum