[coffeefirst]

An even simpler solution would be for the industry to not make their product more addictive and toxic at every opportunity to maximize engagement.

AIM and IRC did not get us to this point. I doubt the original Instagram that was purely about posting dumb photos with your friends would have either.

Given how concentrated the industry is, the buck stops with about four dudes who decided this was the course they wanted to set.

[hellojesus]

Users have a choice. They like the product and use it. The product makes money by users using it. This is totally expected. We don't need regulation; we need to let people maximize their utility curves!

[tstrimple]

We live in a society that explicitly rewards that behavior. If you don't change the reward systems, you cannot expect the system to just "become better". There is a reason AIM doesn't exist anymore and IRC is just a few grey hairs shouting at clouds. They lost. Capitalism won.