We've preliminary found that TikTok is in breach of the DSA for its addictive design.
There are important indicators of compulsive use of the app that TikTok has disregarded in its risk assessment.
Key features of the addictive design:
🔹Infinite scroll
🔹Autoplay
🔹Push notifications
🔹Highly personalised recommender system
We consider that TikTok needs to change the basic design of its service.
TikTok can now exercise its right to examine and reply to the finding.
@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] your guess is correct. most of the DSA applies only to platforms >45 million monthly active users: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Services_Act#Designation_of_VLOPs_and_VLOSEs So if the fediverse, including loops, actually stays federated, meaning not too many people use the same instance (or different instances run by the same operator), its structure makes it inherently exempt. RE: @[email protected] @[email protected] I'm guessing they only look at platforms once they grow large enough, there are such limits for reporting requirements at least. That said, I think it could make sense to eventually implement features that prevent people from becoming too addicted to Loops too. The current Loops algo and the content the platform has probably isn't as finely tuned to be extremely addictive and there's no reason to make it be though. RE: ...
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