None of the 4 major feed architectures actually works.

1. “Following” feed: Gets stale and cozy-claustrophobic after a while. Friends and even “weak ties” are info-poor.

2. Self-personalized topical feed: Can’t make one because what enriches my info diet is only 20% legible to me, plus too many knobs/fragmentation

3. Global feed with reactive fine tuning: Degenerates to Chief Algorithm Officer’s coercive tastes

4. Learns-my-tastes feed: Degenerates to learns-my-worst-buttons manipulation that makes me exit to regain control

I think “feed” is a design problem only solvable in cultural peacetime. During endemic culture war, you can’t get a feed that is a) informationally nourishing, b) manipulatively restrained, and c) sufficiently socially open

c = mostly friends, but good serendipitous discovery of enriching new people to follow. Reposts and quotes mostly reinforce existing dimensions.

Density 🚨!! 

A very relative thought for all modern consumer tech imo.

https://x.com/ktmboyle/status/1840414940735176813?s=46

problem being tech not at a level where the feed acts like a person and asks the feeded for non-quantitative feedback