the solution to having created a world you think is too toxic for children is not to ban children from the world

Reply to the solution to having created a world you think is too toxic for children is not to ban children from the world on Tue, 14 Apr 2026 07:46:51 GMT

soulsource@mastodon.gamedev.place — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 07:46:51 GMT

@jargoggles @ana The book "Careless People" describes some interactions between Facebook executives and politicians.

Some of them were quite reasonable. Others, like the meeting with the Irish prime minister at Davos (page 174), are rather disturbing.

Reply to the solution to having created a world you think is too toxic for children is not to ban children from the world on Tue, 14 Apr 2026 01:48:41 GMT

jargoggles@kolektiva.social — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 01:48:41 GMT

@ana
It's wild - we have all these internal memos and shit from Meta where they're like, "Designing our algorithms on Facebook and Instagram to make people angry and hate themselves keeps them on the site half a second longer, which makes us an extra millionth of a cent. So obviously that's what we gotta do." It's not even a secret.

Yet despite all of the mountains of evidence that this is being intentionally done to people, particularly young people, the idea that we should regulate a handful of companies doesn't even come up for a vote. Apparently, trying to regulate the daily lives of tens of millions of people is a lot more rational?

Reply to the solution to having created a world you think is too toxic for children is not to ban children from the world on Mon, 13 Apr 2026 20:04:48 GMT

steff@soc.femme.cat — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 20:04:48 GMT

@ana@starlite.rodeo Sadly, we live in a world where barely functioning, traumatized, adults believe that the best response to childhood is re-enact their own experiences of trauma upon them. The ones pushing these laws are not those who grew up with social media, but grew up any isolation and absence of it.

Reply to the solution to having created a world you think is too toxic for children is not to ban children from the world on Mon, 13 Apr 2026 19:50:58 GMT

beamsandbows@mastodon.sdf.org — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 19:50:58 GMT

@ana Discord mentally forked me at 31.

Reply to the solution to having created a world you think is too toxic for children is not to ban children from the world on Mon, 13 Apr 2026 19:46:09 GMT

ana@starlite.rodeo — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 19:46:09 GMT

how about creating a world you aren't embarrassed to think of a child existing in?

Reply to the solution to having created a world you think is too toxic for children is not to ban children from the world on Mon, 13 Apr 2026 19:44:25 GMT

ana@starlite.rodeo — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 19:44:25 GMT

ludicrous to think that a social media app that is too toxic for a sixteen year old is somehow ok for an "adult". if all social media is toxic, it's all toxic for everyone, and who's fault is that?