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That certainly is all it does. Infinite scrolling simply loads more data when you reach the bottom of the page. It’s used in place of pagination/buttons to load that content.
You’re probably thinking of some algorithm that provides never ending stream of content.
The infinite scroll goes hand in hand with that type of algorithm. Even if there isn't more content, some versions of the infinite scroll keep loading assorted shit you've already seen before.
It's also part and parcel of a mindset switch from looking at some content on a fixed number of pages and then moving on with your day, to pushing the screen up forever even if you've already seen most of it.
It also usually makes it so that you cannot bookmark the state, and the state often reloads fresh when you hit back and you've lost what you're looking at.
In other words: it fucking sucks and I hate it.
My instance uses infinite scroll,it does not go hand-in-hand with a never ending stream. If I got to a small comm it ends quickly, if I'm on all I would browse every post since the instance went up.
If you lack the ability to know how much or how long you've spent browsing beyond the time you intended, that's a you issue not something to impose on everyone else. I don't need some government deciding such simplistic shit on my behalf.