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

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

Yes, algorithms like that are terrible. It's not uncommon for us to see things we don't like because we accidentally stumbled upon a new topic that we thought would be interesting.