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41 states sue Meta, claiming Instagram, Facebook are addictive, harm kids
(www.washingtonpost.com)
this post was submitted on 25 Oct 2023
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probably less addictive though, due to no algorithm that pushes things to make you keep scrolling. and of course no ads.
... Yet
there's almost a thousand Pixelfed instances at the moment, as far as I know none of them being owned by a for-profit company. would be pretty difficult to convince all the admins to start running ads on theirs.