this post was submitted on 06 Feb 2026
745 points (99.3% liked)

Technology

80928 readers
4392 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related news or articles.
  3. Be excellent to each other!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
  10. Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
L3s@lemmy.world
enu@lemmy.world
technopagan@lemmy.world
L4s@lemmy.world
L3s@hackingne.ws
745
TikTok's 'Addictive Design' Found to Be Illegal in Europe in breach of the Digital Services Act (digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu)
submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by Beep@lemmus.org to c/technology@lemmy.world
59 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

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.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] ViatorOmnium@piefed.social 25 points 3 days 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 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] athatet@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] ToTheGraveMyLove@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] Petter1@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The usenet is text based as well 🌚

(You can still get 4k movie files iut of it)