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How can we protect kids from the harms of social media without sacrificing everyone's privacy? (piefed.ca)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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[–] 7 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Make chronological feeds mandatory. Accounts you follow shall not be filtered nor censored and posts of accounts you have not followed should not be shown. Algorithmic feeds are allowed but should be opt-in inside the settings.

And also schools teaching and parents parenting.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (1 child)

    Mandatory? So Lemmy/Piefed should be forced to only list by /new/?

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

    Yeah, no that does not sound right. Maybe just “make personalized algorithms opt in”? But as this would be heavily lobbied by meta and bytedance probably, maybe just a switch to have the option if anything :(

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  • [–] 0 points 8 months ago

    Chronology is only one part of this, although I think it is the right foot forward.
    We also need:

    • Mandatory session limits with friction
    • Notification redesign replacing real-time alerts with scheduled digest batches
    • Engagement friction mechanisms
    • Especially need algorithmic transparency & control to make the user aware and in not manipulated
    • Behavioral feedback systems
    • An most importantly Monetization Realignment

    The parents point is true, but more generally I think it needs to be that "people" need to be held responsible and accountable for their actions both as adults and children, and to enable this they need to be taught critical thinking skills as well as given the tools to make this happen. Common sense isn't common, it's instilled.

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