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The whole problem with social media is the feed. Remove that feed and replace it with something that is not the mechanism to keep users captive and most of the

The whole problem with social media is the feed. Remove that feed and replace it with something that is not the mechanism to keep users captive and most of the issues with social media are solved. One of the ways to achieve that is to make people at the center of app. The user chooses avatar from multiple avatars on main screen and view their updates. Once they have viewed someone's update they can go back do it for other, it becomes boring very fast and discourages app usage. No social media company is going to do this but something of this sort needs to happen.

ilrwbwrkhv 4y ago
Correct. Infinite scroll and adaptive algorithms are the curse of social media.
suketk 4y ago
Exactly! It's the digital equivalent of placing the milk at the back of the grocery store. It's meant to distract you from why you're there in the first place. If anyone is interested, I wrote about why feeds are bad and how you can reduce your dependence on them. https://suketk.com/feeds-considered-harmful https://suketk.com/feeds-considered-harmful
Existenceblinks 4y ago
I think it would have similar effect of reddit or youtube. 99% of the time I use reddit or youtube, it's started with search to jump straight to a topic. And that is better because the demand side is an active, the knowledge side is the sort of passive. So mediocre knowledge wouldn't have the money backed ads power to outperform the better knowledge or solution.
trhr 4y ago
I don't come on the orange site to feel attacked. I come here to mindlessly scroll the news.
malikNF 4y ago
With twitter setting your feed to show the latest instead of the top shows you the latest stuff from just the people you follow. [1] I have noticed doing this has massively reduced the amount of time I spend there. [1] https://mashable.com/article/set-twitter-timeline-most-recent-chronological https://mashable.com/article/set-twitter-timeline-most-recen...
- tnzk 4y ago
  Except this setting reverts back to the default if you haven't visted Twitter for some time (48h or so IIRC), which works as another gravity to let you habitize it.
octoluke 4y ago
This is actually almost exactly what Snapchat stories - now also on Instagram and Facebook - achieve. You can click through your friend’s updates, reply as you want, and when you’ve seen everyone you’re out of content until someone posts again. I kinda like using these apps in this way, because it’s still cool to see what people are up to, usually more genuine, and harder to get sucked down the scroll.

ilrwbwrkhv 4y ago

Correct. Infinite scroll and adaptive algorithms are the curse of social media.

suketk 4y ago

Exactly! It's the digital equivalent of placing the milk at the back of the grocery store. It's meant to distract you from why you're there in the first place. If anyone is interested, I wrote about why feeds are bad and how you can reduce your dependence on them. https://suketk.com/feeds-considered-harmful https://suketk.com/feeds-considered-harmful

Existenceblinks 4y ago

I think it would have similar effect of reddit or youtube. 99% of the time I use reddit or youtube, it's started with search to jump straight to a topic. And that is better because the demand side is an active, the knowledge side is the sort of passive. So mediocre knowledge wouldn't have the money backed ads power to outperform the better knowledge or solution.

trhr 4y ago

I don't come on the orange site to feel attacked. I come here to mindlessly scroll the news.

malikNF 4y ago

With twitter setting your feed to show the latest instead of the top shows you the latest stuff from just the people you follow. [1] I have noticed doing this has massively reduced the amount of time I spend there. [1] https://mashable.com/article/set-twitter-timeline-most-recent-chronological https://mashable.com/article/set-twitter-timeline-most-recen...

tnzk 4y ago
Except this setting reverts back to the default if you haven't visted Twitter for some time (48h or so IIRC), which works as another gravity to let you habitize it.

octoluke 4y ago

This is actually almost exactly what Snapchat stories - now also on Instagram and Facebook - achieve. You can click through your friend’s updates, reply as you want, and when you’ve seen everyone you’re out of content until someone posts again. I kinda like using these apps in this way, because it’s still cool to see what people are up to, usually more genuine, and harder to get sucked down the scroll.