I want to see regulation of the algorithm. Something like forcing a chronological feed, or somehow nerfing the recommendation engine. Figure out a way to make it boring, bypass the whole censorship debate.

Oh no! But yes, you are right, the elderly are very susceptible to really bad social media influence.

Drawing that to its ultimate conclusion: people are very susceptible to being influenced and social media may well turn out to be a net negative.

Not great, because they promise to delete our IDs but don't, and get hacked (see Discord hack from a few months ago where 70k users had government IDs leaked).

To reiterate what I wrote above: We need to ban addictive dark patterns on ALL platforms for ALL ages.

I think the opposite is in order. Ban phones with screens for those over 18 (driving limit). Phones are a drug that people cannot seem to let go off. Even when driving. Kids don’t have cars. Perhaps a trade? A phone or a car?

Yeah. We need to introduce social-media literacy tests that certify that you are capable of being a good valuable citizen on social media instead of a disinformation sharer and slop consumer.

I'll accept it when we can ban bootlickers off of HN.