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Social media platforms to be forced to offer algorithm opt-out (www.abc.net.au)

submitted 4 weeks ago by Lemmynated@lemmy.zip to c/world@quokk.au

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[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 30 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

In Australia.

And it means "only see what people they are following are posting", obviously there will still be an algorithm, just not a "for you" algorithm.

[–] IAmYouButYouDontKnowYet@reddthat.com 16 points 4 weeks ago

The internet was so much better before the constant manipulation.

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Hopefully they let you set it as the default. For example, Instagram technically has a chronological feed but you need to go through some menus first

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 6 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

And also it doesn't stick. If you close the app it resets.

[–] AppleTea@lemmy.zip 5 points 4 weeks ago

If there's gonna be legislation, it should work the other way round. People should have to opt-in to anything other than chronological sorting, and they should have to do it every time they open the app or pull up the webpage.