The fact that the Commission said TikTok should change the basic design of its service is āground-breaking for the business model fueled by surveillance and advertising," said Katarzyna Szymielewicz, president of the Panoptykon Foundation, a Polish civil society group.
Honestly, I really love this idea. Itās so easy to just fall into doom scrolling and go down a never-ending rabbit hole. So forcing some kind of decision-making to continue is a good idea, given some of the addiction weāve seen arise from these types of apps.
Iāve also been thinking defaulting to an algorithmic timeline should be nixed. If a user wants to make that decision and switch over, let āem. But even on Instagram, where you have the following feed, you have to switch to it every single timeāthat should be the default. Then you can switch to a discover feed or the algorithm or whatever if you so choose.
Or maybe Iām just a weak human being with no self-control. But both could be true.
