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.

  • saimen@feddit.org
    2·
    9 hours ago

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

    • vodka@feddit.org
      20·
      9 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
      7·
      9 hours ago

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