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.
@EUCommission @stux, well, when I check, even #Loops have infinite scroll and autoplay 🤔 As a free software and decentralized application, still better than TikTok, but done similar issues are there also 😕
@kubofhromoslav @EUCommission @stux @dansup
Example of "For You" recommendation feed 'running out':
@rusty__shackleford @kubofhromoslav @EUCommission @stux Interesting, they must have watched a lot, I will work on a fix (I didn't expect people to scroll that far tbh haha)
@EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu So how would this work with Loops? As that has infinite scrolling, autoplay, push notifications (coming soon), and there for you page is only getting better.
Does this mean Loops is at high risk too?
@sam @EUCommission 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.
@ikuturso @sam @EUCommission 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.
@EUCommission Thank you. Next up: Insta.
Hello @axeln, META also falls under the category of "Very Large Online Platforms", which we supervise.
You can find an overview of all ongoing investigations for all these large companies here:
https://link.europa.eu/ngkJPH
