The EU’s digital services act requires social media platforms to provide chronological feeds.
This is one of the weird outcomes of the moral panic around algorithms in social media which now means TikTok has to produce chronological feeds instead of content based on your interests as an option.
The trend of EU users getting worse product experiences that few users want continues unabated.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/4/23819878/tiktok-fyp-algorithm-eu-dsa-personalization-data-tracking
My favorite example of the EU mandated products that no one wants are the N editions of Windows. These are versions of Windows without a music/video player so users can download their own versions.
You can guess how minuscule the number of people who actually buy the version of Windows with fewer features actually is. A worse product that no one wants yet mandated by government is the EU way. 😇
https://softwarekeep.com/blog/what-are-the-windows-10-n-and-kn-editions
nostr:npub19qm2trjs3p32nwqwry4ufxl4fk9q4utkq53ywueg0yk8cvggra5s79sn8k I believe the EU is pushing for options i.e., making chronologic ordered timelines an option rather than letting a #SociaMedia platform get away with only offering algorithmically ordered timelines -- which is problematic.
Options are crucial 😀
nostr:npub19qm2trjs3p32nwqwry4ufxl4fk9q4utkq53ywueg0yk8cvggra5s79sn8k
> EU users getting worse product experiences that few users want
How come? The text you're providing as a source says;
> TikTok users in Europe will be able to switch off the personalized algorithm
And also how do you know whether EU users are happy about it or not? I for one am an EU citizen and I am happy about this. How do you know I'm not in the majority of users?
This would actually make user experience BETTER, not worse.
