Comment on Virginia Enacts Stupid, Completely Unworkable ‘Social Media Time Limit’ Law
MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day agoEven 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.
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.
fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
This place feels like Reddit before it enshittified. I missed those old days.
SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org 1 day ago
That’s somewhat depressing if so as I’ve run into so many assholes here. Still, interesting to know.
fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
I’m talking like 2012 era. I mean where are assholes and dumbasses but that was what it was always like. Things got worse because corpos are abusing us for money and now we’re returning to the mean, where good things are possible again. You just gotta turn out the shitheads that’s all
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.
fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
So.why do you want restrictions targeting marginalised groups?
MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
What in god’s green earth about limitting social media usage on a daily time-us basis implies anything about targetting marginalized groups? Things that are detrimental to mental health, like excessive social media consumption, aren’t magically less-so for marginalized groups.
If anything, such media is a distraction and pacifier of sorts.