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		el1s7 4 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: EU Commission: addictive design Instagram and Face... The choice already exist: don't use social media like Instagram and TikTok. Yet everyone keep choosing it despite being addictive. So you can't really trust people, even less teenagers, to make a disciplined choice of not using an addictive algorithm.
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Noaidi 4 days ago | [–]

> Yet everyone keep choosing it despite being addictive.

Let me fix that for you. Everyone keeps choosing it because it is addictive.

alightsoul 4 days ago | [–]

Because the network effect prevents them from using alternatives. Bluesky is a desert in the global south

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