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• Post #920900

  I completely agree. It would be amazing if we could nationally or even globally enforce age restrictions to give an internet kiddy pool to let children learn and grow in a safe online environment. We live in a time where the people who are pushing this in the government should not be trusted to use that information for the real reason. “For the kids” is all made up and not helping kids. Giving up privacy in order to not help kids really highlights how corrupt the people pushing for this are.

• Post #920040

  I’m also a layman, but I have read some discussions about this exact comparison. Essentially, the big mainstream sites often have personalized algorithms for each user that learns and adapts specifically to the user to feed the user whatever junk food content it can to keep them engaged. Algorithms on things like base lemmy or maybe reddit in the past just have a sort function like excel that propped up posts with more likes or more comments. You can see what other people are interested in, but...