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TikTok's 'Addictive Design' Found to Be Illegal in Europe in breach of the Digital Services Act (digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu)
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The Commission's investigation preliminarily indicates that TikTok did not adequately assess how these addictive features could harm the physical and mental wellbeing of its users, including minors and vulnerable adults.

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[–] ToTheGraveMyLove@sh.itjust.works 7 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Lemmy has a ton of media tho, its not entirely text based.

[–] ViatorOmnium@piefed.social 24 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

But the algorithm isn't extremely personalized or optimized towards "engagement". In fact the only fediverse platform that comes close is Loops, and even that is light-years away from the psychological manipulation that goes into Tiktok algorithms.

[–] ToTheGraveMyLove@sh.itjust.works 6 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

100% agreed, my only quibble was calling Lemmy a text based site.

[–] athatet@lemmy.zip 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

It can be text based and still contain images and video, no?

[–] ToTheGraveMyLove@sh.itjust.works 2 points 14 hours ago

When its spread between all of them pretty evenly, is it still text based?