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 ha...
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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.
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@Natanox Hard agree.
Oddly, the only fedi environment I encounter this with (if you exclude the point where you see stuff you've seen before, as with Mastodon) is Lemmy, ie. alternative Reddit.
Its clients (I use Voyager) have the ability to hide posts you've already seen, so you essentially get only "new stuff" and 1+ year old posts.
Sadly, I've not found a way to get it to treat posts older than X months/years as "read", but feature requests are a thing.
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@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.
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@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. :blobcat:
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@saraislet An algorithm that tries to determine what you want or should see is equally bad and harmful. No matter how well designed, it will inadvertantly create bubbles and warp opinions as seen on commercial social media.
With chronological timelines there at least isn't anything hidden from you, although I agree it's simply too much most of the time. However that is where multiple pages come into play, they purposefully disrupt the scrolling (and dopamine rush) to open a decision window. -
@Nicro isn't that already possible through lists?
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@jumile Mostly yes, although to go the full "healthy" route it should default to "subscribed - New". For me the default setting after installation was " All - Hot" of I remember correctly. Also of course it didn't have the "hide read posts" feature enabled.
Given most people won't scroll through all the options but simply use the default, a proper discussion about those with focus in mental health would be wise.
