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Yes, it could be better. But its also parents who need to get their shit together. I know so many who park their kids in front of tablet, phone or pc - not for a breather or a short distraction, but as the standard way to entertain kids.

Because they fear that the kids might be bored. But boredom is good, it gets creative juices flowing. However, you have to be hard and tell nagging kids no, and that is hard

If kids have been inducted to immediately get a phone whenever they whine a bit, there is not much school can do.

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LukeZaz@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
That’s still a separate issue. Infinite scroll is scarcely ever used in a good way, and is almost always used to encourage addictive behavior; something which affects adults just as much as children. It’s a nasty dark-pattern and little else.

As far as I’m concerned, banning infinite scroll could easily be a very good thing, and I’m in favor.

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- jagermo@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  100%, Infinity scroll needs to go.
  
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- TehPers@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  
  Infinite scroll is scarcely ever used in a good way
  
  Just to clarify, we’re only talking about mainstream social media here, right? Those are the only platforms they’re considering here, and more specifically, only TikTok right now.
  
  “Infinite scroll” is also how you can scroll up in your chat log and see more messages. It’s how you can open logs for a VM online and see logs going further and further back. It’s how you can search for a video on YouTube and keep scrolling down (past the inevitable pile of shit) until you find it.
  
  On social media platforms, and in particular not in a chat interface, it can be toxic.
  
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  - LukeZaz@beehaw.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    
    Just to clarify, we’re only talking about mainstream social media here, right?
    
    Yes, most discussions of infinite scroll center around this use, and it’s what the topic’s on. I’m aware that other uses exist, but frankly I’m not terribly worried about that. Pagination is a perfectly viable alternative for most every case that infinite scroll is used in, especially when paired with a half-decent search system, so even if a clumsy blanket ban were applied I think we’d be fine.
    
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