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The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling (www.politico.eu)

submitted 16 hours ago by bytesonbike@discuss.online to c/technology@beehaw.org

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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.

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[–] saimen@feddit.org 3 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

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

[–] vodka@feddit.org 22 points 10 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.

[–] Lauchmelder@feddit.org 10 points 10 hours ago

Pagination

[–] karashta@piefed.social 8 points 10 hours ago

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