Kind of sad. Teens have a higher rate of suicide because of the evil algorithms of social media and we as a society do basically nothing about it. I’m readings news about it since years and absolutely nothing changes. Why are we not forbiddening it? How much worse can it get??
Why would we stop it? Despair is great for conditioning the next generation of
slavesworkers to accept abuse.Algos have us all doom-scrolling.
When 9-11 happened the Fukushima I couldn’t tear myself away from the footage. Ended up being the same in Reddit with live updates, would have been the same with Tiktok I suppose but I never engaged on that.
I moved Youtube back to clients that only gave me who i follow, moved to lemmy/piefed.
I just want enough news to know what’s happening. I don’t need every gory detail or every opinion piece on it.
I even split on bluesky, wasn’t healthy.
Fediverse is just about as healthy as I can find.
(editor’s note: they are designed to capture users’ attention and monetise it, and they come in several forms which aren’t necessarily limited to social media. Some are also used by online shopping sites, for example).
The Problem Is NOT Social Media, Please Stop Feeding The Moral Panic
I am not saying you are wrong. But you need to show us unbiased research that contradict the research that does show a link.
Heck even meta’s own research (as biased as it gets) show a significant link.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/meta-internal-research-social-media-harm-court-filing.html
https://www.anxiousgeneration.com/research/the-evidence