Comment on Virginia Enacts Stupid, Completely Unworkable ‘Social Media Time Limit’ Law

• fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  You k.ow they want to to go after LGBT people and Palestine protestors right? That’s their while thing and they’ve admitted it? Why do you wanna help the evil people?

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  • MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Limitting time is nothing like limitting speech. If I want to write a lengthy post, I can write it off-line, copy-and-paste without wasting quota time or whatever. Same goes for reading lengthy content; Copy/Paste(or print2pdf) and save for later.

    Missing the latest short-form content garbage would be a boon for those who otherwise insist on wasting their time, mental and emotional energy like so.

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    • fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      What? Your logic is insane

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      • MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        The internet was better before ignorant takes like yours showed up. Facebook, tik-tok, and the like invented nothing that wasn’t done better previously. Are you really so addicted to all this Web 2.0 non-sense? Of course you are. Get help.

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• SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Excessive social media usage helps no-one.

  Only commercial social media.

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  • MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Even if they somehow limit time spent on forums, mastodon, whatever, content can be saved for later consumption, and responses composed for later posting. Instant access to the latest tweet or tiktok isn’t helping anyone but advertisers.

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    • SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      We aren’t sure how this rebutts what we said. Commercial social media seems to us to be the problem for the most part, open source social media run by real people seems to be a lot healthier from what we have experienced.

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      • fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        This place feels like Reddit before it enshittified. I missed those old days.

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      • MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        If you read what I wrote, open source social media is also easier to consume and interact with in the manner I described. Usenet, e-mail, IRC, forums, even private messaging and group-chats are all both healthier to interact with and less demanding of our time than “services” that bury the content we want to see like facebook and the rest.

        Every single on is still around and in use by the same people who built the internet and others who get more done for themselves and open-source projects than you or I or most of us on Lemmy and the more modern de-federated schemes.

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