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

• fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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

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  • 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.

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    • fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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

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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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  • fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    So.why do you want restrictions targeting marginalised groups?

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    • 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.

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      • SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        There are people who literally cannot leave the house and their community is literally on social media. Are you saying their mental health would not decline if they were unable to reach their community due to some inane law like this?

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