Natanox 🇺🇦🇵🇸

In light of all the studies linking the "endless scrolling" mechanism as well as suggestion algorithms to actual health risks (literally brainrot) I'd love to see a fedi client that gets rid of it in favour of a design that merely shows you what you haven't seen yet, in chronological order, separated into multiple pages.

If there isn't anything new - well, empty window with "come back later :)" it is!

Make social media an experience that can end.
#SocialMedia #Addiction #Health

Dec 14, 2024 at 3:07amWeb
Show threadaredsquirrelDec 14, 2024
@Natanox agreed. Endless scroll for the sake of sapping more time should be reduced. At the very least every program should have that option to switch between the modes to give at least some choice.. But you know.. Digital capitalism things.
Show threadInsecurity Princess 🌈💖🔥Dec 14, 2024

@Natanox 🤔 for users with than a handful of follows that look at the fediverse a healthy low number of times a week, wouldn't there always be more that you haven't seen than you can reasonably read in a healthy social media session?

Seems like algorithmically identifying a small number of likely relevant posts from a variety of people you follow would be the healthier approach. Chronological isn't more healthy, it's just a different algorithm showing a differently limited slice. Trying to see everything new is the addiction.

Show threadNicroDec 14, 2024
@Natanox I'm all for this, but Fedi is already pretty tame in that regard. Unless you want to read the entire global timeline. Follows-only is finite by nature. I only wish, we could import the "follow tags as people" and "separate follows into categories with their own timeline" features from blobsky. That way, you could have a timeline you want to see every post of, and one for casually browsing cat-pictures.