No more feeds, please

No more feeds, please

The perpetual scroll of social media feeds has become boring to me. I open up Reddit, Twitter, Hacker News, Instagram, and various others, yearning for a fresh discovery, only to be inundated with regurgitated clips and opinions designed solely to generate superficial engagement. I find myself mindlessly consuming low-quality content, squandering hours on platforms that offer little substance. I am so sick of looking at feeds and consuming junk content that in the words of Elon are “regrettable time spent on a platform”. I don’t dislike the content on them for the most part, videos of dogs doing tricks, a podcast clip, sports videos. What I dislike is that I waste so much time on them and for the most part the content does not matter, it can be consumed at any point. There is no breaking “must-know” news, no ideas that will change how I run my business just recycled clips from other pages or some inane take designed for engagement. So much of the content can feel urgent or necessary to know but ultimately I just don’t care anymore. ...

June 6, 2023 · 3 min · Nick Hayden