The European Union is accusing Meta of breaching social media laws by designing Facebook and Instagram to be addictive.
    • ChicoSuave@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      2 days ago

      Drugs are already illegal and it doesn’t stop people from ruining their lives and those around them. This needs to be treated at the source, like drugs.

      • oneser@lemmy.zipEnglish
        51·
        2 days ago

        Funnily enough, we are also really shit at treating drug related issues!

    • CAVOK@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      11·
      2 days ago

      I don’t, but that also means that I’m cut out of certain information and activities.

        • Ghoelian@piefed.socialEnglish
          5·
          2 days ago

          The only time I have ever found people posting about events in my town is when looking at someone else browsing Facebook.

            • IsoKiero@sopuli.xyzEnglish
              2·
              2 days ago

              In smaller villages there’s usually a facebook group or two and few whatsapp groups along with associations instagram accounts which communicate 90+% of all kinds of events around locally. Municipal government obviously have their official websites and stuff, but for community events it’s pretty much all Meta.

              I’ve tried to change that, but when arranging an event and advertising it on mastodon doesn’t really work if 7 people see your post and 4 of them are across the globe.

    • ViatorOmnium@piefed.socialEnglish
      4·
      2 days ago

      Except for lots use cases it is. They are the only places where some events are broadcast, or reach out some businesses, or access lots of local groups.

        • huppakee@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          2 days ago

          Maybe the fault of why these people go to social media in the first place, but not the fault why these people spend hours everyday using their apps. Putting in addictive algorithms is a serious crime imo.