Manitoba to ban social media, AI chatbots for youth, premier says

Age verification can (currently) be easily faked. If they go the route of ID verification, meaning more data collection, it’s a huge privacy nightmare.

Why not tackle the root design problems of these platforms which makes them so toxic?

Let’s focus less on age verification and more on design patterns that make these platforms so addictive:

• No algorithmic feeds / recommendations (back to the old chronological feed)
• No infinite scroll (by paginating a feed, it creates a small friction point that gives the user pause as to whether they want to continue or not)
• No instant re-posting (so many people blindly repost shit they haven’t even read, amplifying bullshit that hardly anyone actually knows they’re amplifying further. Want to re-share? Go old school, post the link yourself.)

Everyone on lemmy loves wab kinew. Everyone on lemmy also hates age verification. Who will win? Only time will tell

What an idiot. It won't happen or work but sure lets waste money trying.

I don't think it's the solution.