thomas

On the X app, I have to resort to what I call tactical browsing — carefully avoiding some threads not because they aren’t somewhat interesting in that moment, but because opening them will tell the algo to feed me more of that content.

The diet analogy is that I might enjoy some greasy comfort food right about now, but there’s a chef watching what I pick and he’ll feed me only that going forward.

It’s a mental burden having to constantly worry about what to read or like. I appreciate not having that concern on Warpcast

Aviator, diver, Etherean, nexialist, PhD in aviation ∩ climate science | Host of /diving /ethfinance /eth-staker /geopolitics /science /singapore /thomas

And sometimes I get baited into opening a thread that looked insightful, and turned out to be lukewarm slop with a newsletter promotion at the end.

I end up muting those accounts to avoid the algo thinking I’m enjoying those

If only the algo cared that you enjoyed it or not. It will only care that you spend eyeball time on it.