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by FinnKuhn 45 days ago
I think especially restricting endless scrolling is a good thing overall to reduce the addictiveness of social media and its harmful effects.

HN having pages instead of a feed or endless list is one of the things I really like about it.
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nanapipirara 45 days ago
For sure.

The other thing I really love about HN is that titles are all supposed to be boring and to the point. The guidelines[1] for titles are excellent and I wish more of the web and honestly legacy media too would behave that way. Things that are of no interest to me are not trying to waste my time and attention.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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dinfinity 45 days ago
It's probably not something that can be enforced legally, but the concept of DeArrow (user-provided titles and thumbnails for Youtube) should be the norm.

Perhaps there can be an EU maintained browser extension that allows netizens to provide alternate, honest titles and thumbnails for all kinds of content. Probably still incredibly hard to implement throughout apps etc., but a man can dream.

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ekjhgkejhgk 45 days ago
> I think especially restricting endless scrolling

The actual point is that they are designed to be addictive. "endless scrolling" is just an implementation detail. If you "ban endless scrolling", they'll still be using every other trick to make it addictive.

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