Lots of non-answers but to clarify - yes but no comments.

Sometimes a login wall might block you but if you refresh a couple of times it should work.

no invite and I’ve been on the waitlist since it’s been announced :(

That’s exactly what will happen.

Apple absolutely harms other companies to the point where are taken to court all the time.

There’s no such thing as “their own ecosystem”

As someone who writes on Medium ocassionally — no.

Medium like all other blogging platforms has a problem of incentive. The pay is too little for quality writing and there’s always a gamble on whether your article gets views as you don’t control SEO or even formatting for that matter.

It was always filled with low effor slop because most are either:

• practicing writing
• building out their brand which is basically newbies
• trying to make pennies through low effor churn

I feel for Medium here as it does have an unsolvable problem really and AI has nothing to do with it.

They’re just jumping the newscycle for the propaganda machine. Russian government doesn’t care about tech or linux unless it can help them deliver more bombs to Ukrainian babies and you don’t need to fork the kernel for that.

The way Apple gets away with stuff makes me feel very conspiratorial. Like, how?

How is Apple getting a pass every time and my tin foil hat would say that they are protected by the US government. Maybe because it’s just an important corporation for the US economy but maybe it’s an important corporation for US spying too.

It’s incredible how long Apple has gotten a pass which makes me wonder why are they so protected.

100% this is not technology Russian citizens will ever see domestically. It’ll be some front for the propaganda machine.

One tries to make money by gathering data and targeting advertising to people intentionally addicted to a platform. The other is, you know… a blog.

but that’s not the issue in question. The issue is social media is introducing negative mental effects into teens life. Which we can all agree is true to some extent.

Now, how should we address this? Should we target specific elements like algorithmic timelines and lack of anti-bullying moderation which btw are 2 things that are scientifically proven here or we prohibit teens from accessing all social media even one that has no these harmful designs?

Do you see how this is just a shitty policy no matter how you look at it? It doesn’t prevent big corps from making a bank and does zero things to address the actual issue. It’s fucking stupid.

Where are you getting “corporate website”? when it would affect all social media websites including Lemmy and Mastodon or your moms blog comments.

The idea of online social exchange of opinions or experiences is absolutely a social construct. We literally didn’t have this and now it’s part of every single person’s life in some shape. How can you just prohibit that? Imagine prohibiting phone calls lol it’s incredibly stupid.

Again you compare this to substances and driving? You can’t be serious here? If you can’t even understand this issue then you shouldn’t be parenting let alone tell other people how to.

comparing substances to social media is fucking stupid and you should feel bad.

How would this even work globally and on places like fediverse tho?

it wouldn’t work. I’m betting 100$ right now that nothing will come of this law it’s purely populist virtue signaling.

Now Meta not only knows your name and where you live and your darkest secrets but your legal ID too — fun!

I’m really confused by this perspective and your comparsion to cigarettes is completely inadequette — you can’t compare substances to social constructs.

If parents can’t influence their kids how is goverment powered prohibition supposed to do that?

List one social construct that is successfully prohibited by a governing body and actually provides societal value. The only thing comes to mind is porn and take a look how fucking twisted countries where porn is supressed are. This is some north korea level of stupidity.

This law is unprecedented and usually I’d say it should be approached with great care but clearly it’s just populist virtue signaling because it’s simply stupid and is backed by zero scientific or intelectual basis.

prohibition simply doesn’t work. Especialy with social constructs. Try telling teens that they shouldn’t listen to a specific music genre lol

There are million other better ways to handle and this law just seems like a bunch of populist drivel:

Therefore, the next step will be to push forward an age verification solution specifically for social media.

So, now because some parents suck at parenting I should provide my ID to Instagram? How incredibly dumb is that?

As a parent myself I’m so tired of shitty parents ruining it for everyone. Just talk with your kids, it’s really not that hard.

That ship has long sailed. Most teens will find a way and the ones that don’t will be social rejects.

Social media is fundamentally a part of our social fabric. There’s no going back on that. Instead, collectively we should promote healthier social networks not prohibit them. Norway is fucking stupid here.

Also, wtf are Norvegian parents doing with their infinite oil money they don’t have time to care for their teens?

Remember when they just gave basically a blank check to make this go away?

Humans absolutely improve.

But they aren’t and likely never will be.

And how are we to correct for lack of safety then? With human drivers you obvious discourage dangerous driving through punishment. Who do you punish in a self driving car?