They call it doom scrolling for a reason. The other parts of the UI might as well not exist.
Even on Reddit and HN, there’s an absolutely devastating drop off between homepage visitors and subreddit visitors (or /ask /show visitors). You would be amazed how many Reddit users have never left the home tab.
> One of the main ways I was using Twitter is to find people doing interesting things and then follow them to see what they're up to. This no longer works since you no longer see tweets from the people you follow unless they go viral.
There's a tab Following in the top and it shows people that you follow and their activity. I use it daily and haven't noticed anything of what they describe.
Now, there are other problems obviously: one is how aggressively Twitter was pushing their "recommendations", so for a while the app used to switch back to recommendations without asking for permission, which was really a douchebag move, but you just switch it back to Following tab and timeline again works fine. I haven't noticed this lately, so it could have also been just a bug they've fixed. Another issue is that they mix notifications from "friends of friends" (in Facebook lingo), which also can suck as sometimes ppl you follow happen to follow idiots (¯\_(ツ)_/¯), but you can just block annoying people and after some time trash filters out.
So it's far from perfect, but on the other hand it's not that big drama as some ppl try to present it, honestly. At least for my needs and my circle of online friends and interests...
Indeed if you're active, and like stuff, the algo improves and shows you lots of relevant content. But mostly from the prominent accounts and only viral ones. So the point of the post stands.
That sounds great to me!
- Hide Youtube Shorts
- Hide Youtube Watched
- uBlock Filter to remove Upcoming videos from the subscription page
- Unhook with most options turned on
I do the same for Twitter with the Just Arrived extension tweaked from gh.
Interestingly, this is a non-hidden feature of YouTube itself; you can just close the shorts section of the page. Except that the setting automatically expires after some period of time, maybe ~1 month.
> Hide Youtube Watched
This doesn't seem to make a lot of sense; would you hide "heard" songs on Spotify?
The content I consume it's better one off (podcasts, informational videos etc.). If I need to keep anything on them, I store them elsewhere.
This one? https://github.com/tecoholic/Just-Arrived
What about mobile? I find myself scrolling on my phone a lot and I use a modded app because Android, thankfully. I feel like the best solution is to just delete the app, ultimately.