Comment by parineum

> 2) “Social media” lumps together very different things: - messaging friends, hobby groups, learning communities, identity-affirming support - infinite-scroll algorithmic feeds + targeted ads + push notifications + autoplay People in this thread are mostly describing the second category (“attention media”). If that’s the problem, regulate that layer.

I think you're not focussing on the "media" half of social media to differentiate some of that stuff.

> "messaging friends, hobby groups, learning communities, identity-affirming support"

Those things are all social but I don't see the media.