Social Media: The God That Failed

[Jorge]

Holy shit, logged into Twitter for the first time in a while and it is even more annoying and unusable that it already was. Every fucking tweet is flooded with "@grok what is this??? @grok what is the context here???" responses

[Bi_3]

This explains the Green Day thing:

[spike]

experiment confirms what we already knew

[E.H. Ruddock]

Has anyone used Threads lately? It is a cesspool of bots posting far right and far left spam.

[Peeps]

Has anyone used Threads lately? It is a cesspool of bots posting far right and far left spam.

i deleted it about 3 minutes after creating my account

[Peeps]

Australia bans social media apps for kids under 16


Brisbane, Australia
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Children across Australia will wake up on Wednesday with no access to their social media accounts under a world-first ban designed to shelter those under 16 from addictive algorithms, online predators, and digital bullies.

No other nation has taken such sweeping measures, and the rollout of the tough new law is being closely watched by legislators around the globe.

Most of the 10 banned platforms – Instagram, Facebook, Threads, Snapchat, YouTube, TikTok, Kick, Reddit, Twitch and X – say they’ll comply with the ban, using age verification technology to identify under-16s and suspend their accounts, but they don’t believe it’ll make children safer.

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is already touting the ban as a success because families are talking about social media use. Some children – and their parents – are expected to flout the ban, but there are no consequences for either.

“We’ve said very clearly that this won’t be perfect… but it’s the right thing to do for society to express its views, its judgment, about what is appropriate,” Albanese told the public broadcaster ABC on Sunday.

Under the law, platforms need to show they’ve taken “reasonable steps” to deactivate accounts used by under-16s, and to prevent new accounts being opened, to avoid fines of up to 49.5 million Australian dollars ($32 million)

[spike]

We just had three teenagers move in next door a few weeks ago. I’ll have to ask their dad how this is all going after a few weeks.

[B]

How'd they choose 16 as the cut off?

[B]

Bluesky for the win.

[Higgs]

Whilst I'm generally against this ban and don't really expect it to "work" as such, I actually don't mind the fact that we are trying something to address what is a reasonably decent issue. Is it the right thing? Probably not, but I don't mind forcing some of the bigger platforms to have to make some changes to work in with this.

I'm not "for" the ban as such, but I am "for" some sort of action.

And it will be so great seeing all these 15 and under kids put down their phones on mass and emerge from their dark bedrooms, squinting in the sunshine, and ride their bikes to the park and play!

[spike]

It is just some sort of action.

Should lead to an increase in rampant teenage alcohol abuse.

Like we used to do it.

The good old days.

[E.H. Ruddock]

Seeing Jake Paul and Andrew Tate getting their asses beat two nights in a row was fun

[Peeps]

Seeing Jake Paul and Andrew Tate getting their asses beat two nights in a row was fun

if only arlovski would have knocked jack doherty out cold that would have been the greatest trifecta instead of the greatest duo in the worls

[BurtReynolds]

I finally decided to try to make use of TikTok recently and it really is just the worst of the worst. Absolutely degenerate trash. And it's mostly stealth ads? Why would anyone willingly subject themselves to this? It's not even addictive to me.