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Remember when social media was filled only with posts from your friends, rather than what an algorithm decided you wanted to see? So does the Australian government, and it wants that internet back.

Yesterday, the government released draft legislation outlining a Digital Duty of Care. The proposal includes a measure that Prime Minister Anthony Albanese labeled “My Feed, My Way.” It would allow Australians over 16 to switch off the algorithmic feed that social media platforms deliver automatically to users, instead allowing them to see content from friends and creators they choose to follow.

This legislation, which is expected to reach Parliament before Christmas, would force platforms to send notifications to both new and existing users asking them to choose between the two types of feed. Platforms would then have to respect that choice unless the user changed it.

The feed controls are grabbing the headlines, but the Digital Duty of Care also includes protections for users under 18. Digital services, including social media, online games, apps, and AI chatbots, would have to protect under-18s from harmful content and design features that could negatively affect their behavior or self-esteem.

That includes content that promotes eating disorders, misogyny, crime, life-threatening stunts, pornography, or serious mental health distress.

The proposed law is the latest move from a country known for its aggressive stance on social media safety. Australia banned under-16s from using a wide range of social media platforms, although it hasn’t gone that well.

Three months after the December 2025 ban, 81% of Aussie kids were still using at least one restricted social media platform, down from 86% when the ban was introduced. Before the ban took effect, about 60% used social media at least once a day. Three months later, that figure was 58%.

Bans sound good on paper but they’re hard to enforce.

The new proposal takes a different approach by placing more responsibility on social media companies. The government promises penalties of up to $109.2 million Australian dollars (US$78.6 million) for companies that fail to comply with the Digital Duty of Care.

The Australian eSafety Commissioner would also gain the power to issue removal notices for nudify apps and websites, and streamline its existing child cyberbullying and adult cyber abuse schemes so it can deal with harmful material more quickly.

The move comes less than two weeks after Meta agreed to let teens choose a non-personalized feed as part of a multi-billion dollar settlement with US states.

Why is an opt-out from automatically curated feeds important? Companies that automatically curate your content with their own algorithms tend to show you more of what you’ve been seeing.

That can be great if you’re building a chicken coop and want as much advice as possible on nest box placement. But it can also narrow the range of content you see, making it harder to develop a well-rounded view of a subject.

Perhaps sensing a change in the political wind, social media companies have already begun offering friends-only feeds. Facebook reintroduced this capability in its Friends tab in the US and Canada in March 2025. It called this one of its “OG” Facebook experiences.

TikTok also now has a Friends tab alongside its regular For You feed, while Instagram has offered chronological Following and Favorites feeds since 2022. YouTube has its Subscriptions feed, while Snapchat created separate feeds for friends and other content creators back in 2017.

The problem is that these feeds aren’t the default. Recommended content remains the easiest option to consume.

If you use social media and want more control over what you see, look for its Friends, Following, Favorites, or Subscriptions feed. You might end up with more humblebragging, vaguebooking, or faux-wisdom memes, but at least you’ll know why you’re seeing them. And you can always get some new friends.

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I have a successful app I built myself with a solid user base. I had been working on a new version via Claude on and off for about six months

In work we use LLMs exclusively. Nobody writes code anymore. It's all hands off and we have a high level understanding of how things work but no more than that.

When it comes to my side project, I was adding features at breakneck speed with Claude but I realized I have no clue how the new code works or what it changes or breaks. I spent many years of my life working on this project and I don't want to turn it into another vibe coded black box, especially without an org of other engineers to help.

So last night, I abandoned my Claude branch with all the fancy new things and started hand coding again.

It was very very satisfying. Sure, there was monotony. I changed some variable names and I had to chase down all the places they were referenced, comment out tons of stuff to get things working and then slowly bring it back in, but it felt like coming home to an untidy house after living in hotels for half a year, and starting to clean up. Yeah there's work to do, but this place is mine. My own. I know where things live.

It's given me love and energy for the project again (at least for now, I hope it continues!) and I'm delighted to say I took a good look at code I myself had written pre Claude and I still found many ways to write it better, refactor, make it more readable and efficient. I haven't forgotten.

If anyone is feeling the despair of not coding anymore, stairs you're losing your edge, I would suggest you ditch Claude for a few days at least and see how you feel. Your mileage may vary, but it's given me back something I thought was gone forever

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