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 @pixelfed sorry to be the party pooper but this is a major red flag and something you are strongly suggested to reconsider It has been beyond documented and studied in peer reviewed research that #infinitescrolling creates addictive experiences, designed by an industry that thrives on ads and #surveillancecapitalism I am fairly certain you do not wish to be on their side of this ethical issue. https://uxdesign.cc/the-infinite-scroll-effect-how-design-can-hack-your-brain-996a9b8129d9 11 comments
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 @spacekookie @yarmo Promoting healthy use is a priority, and we're doing this by showing a screen time reminder after a period of time. Addicting behaviour does not wait for infinite scrolling btw, adding a "load more" button wouldn't deter such behaviour. That's why we're taking the proactive step in screen time reminders.  @pixelfed that is not how psychology works and this statement frightens me. Ads and tracking are just the way to abuse the addictions created by unethical tricks such as endless scrolling! You are still creating an experience that will hurt the mentally vulnerable by inciting them to stay on the app instead of enjoying life!  @yarmo @pixelfed Just a minor detail but if you got enough of them new users can be scared away when they find Pixelfed just a little bit more complicated than Instaβ¦ At least personally i'd find it extremely annoying to press "Load more" every few seconds Maybe you could make the discover timeline have a load more button and the normal be infinite π€ Bc the personal timeline seems rather unproblematic in my eyes (at least if you don't follow to many people) @yarmo Sorry for the confusion, we meant the home timeline infinite scroll. The local/public and network timelines have a finite limit of 400 posts by default and discover is limited even more. Another aspect of our infinite scroll implementation is how we interject after a threshold is met to remind users about healthy use practices. I agree that it's dangerous to have an infinite scroll feed without some sort of limitation, look forward to your feedback and how we can improve this! |
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@yarmo There is no ethical issue when you remove the ads and tracking, as there is no incentive to encourage such behaviour.
The timeline pagination is simply a flatList with onEndReached logic, the non-ethical aspect comes in to play by exploiting that with ads or algorithms.