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The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling (www.politico.eu)
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BRUSSELS — Doom scrolling is doomed, if the EU gets its way.

The European Commission is for the first time tackling the addictiveness of social media in a fight against TikTok that may set new design standards for the world’s most popular apps.

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[–] 34 points 7 months ago

X amount of posts before it stops scrolling. Then you'd have a classic "next page" button like we used to.

Basically you add a conscious choice to keep going, and creating a much more natural stopping point.

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