I want a button on each user (that opts in) that allows me to see their feed just as they do. A read-only impersonation. When I see a take that I wildly disagree with I frequently wonder what set of views of the world they are operating from. This feature would help look at the world from behind the eyes of those I need to learn from the most: those that seem to live in a different one.
A starter pack in comparison is a one-click embubbler. We need better bubble explorers and comparers. Like "Grok, me and @joe disagree on <topic-x>. Compare the relevant items in each of our feeds and summarize the difference in values, facts and sources that we consume."
_Algernon_ · 1h ago
I (and I assume this is probably true for most people) don't want you to have access to this kind of information about me. It's as if you'd want to know every book on my bookshelf. I'm not letting strangers into my home to get that information.
mostlysimilar · 1h ago
Follows are already public information.
slg · 9m ago
So is one's location while in public. It doesn't mean I want someone tracking my location every time I leave the house. The aggregation of public data can end up being an invasion of perceived privacy.
delichon · 1h ago
That's reasonable and prudent. So don't opt in. Any exposure of your opinions on social media has risk.
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MangoToupe · 8m ago
> Compare the relevant items in each of our feeds and summarize the difference in values, facts and sources that we consume."
Surely it'd be easier to just view the delta? Once you have an algorithm in there summarizing things that value is lost.
righthand · 1h ago
Personal tracking? What is stopping you from building a bot that uses this feature to view other peoples personal taste and building a shadow profile that then is used to manipulate them?
You can already do this by scraping their follows list and building a pseudo display of what a person looked at.
delichon · 1h ago
There is no tool that we can create which could enable better empathy and understanding between us, and not also inflate the attack surface for predatory marketing. We get both or neither.
tokyolights2 · 1h ago
You are just describing what advertisers actually do in practice. Maybe if everyone had the same access people would realize how invasive it is.
righthand · 13m ago
So we give everyone single click access and people become bigger monsters or people wake up finally? Make it a separate tool.
Dilettante_ · 1h ago
Yeah! The only people who should be allowed to see my own feed are me and the malevolent corporate entity that owns the platform!
righthand · 22m ago
I said this was already possible by anyone.
AlienRobot · 29m ago
Funny. I want the opposite. I want people to stop posting their opinions on the Internet.
Every time I go to Youtube and I see "the X situation is insane!" I'm like "what is even X? Why are you showing me this?"
The whole social media landscape is engineered toward drama and people arguing over pointless things they have no control over, being controversial all for "engagement." It's pretty depressing.
mosura · 24m ago
> I want people to stop posting their opinions on the Internet.
Interesting that you do not feel the need to lead by example.
MangoToupe · 7m ago
They're right, though. So many problems are caused by thinking that opinions matter.
pnw · 27m ago
I thought Bluesky usage was declining? Sites like https://bsky.jazco.dev/stats show a 10 to 20% drop across most metrics in the last year.
paradox460 · 7m ago
Never let the truth get in the way of a good story
moomoo11 · 1h ago
Cool.
OT but I must be a weirdo because I just don’t get any satisfaction out of these apps.
I just don’t give that much of a shit about what other people think or say.
HN is enough for me lol.
AlienRobot · 24m ago
The only social media app I can stomach is Tumblr, because people share lots of cool photos and art there.
It's weird because on Tumblr you can post posts of any size, place images anywhere you want, edit posts, edit tags afterwards, and all this cool stuff... but no, people WANT to use the character-limited immutable post with embedded hashtags thing for some reason. I don't get it.
kgwxd · 26m ago
i give a shit about what some people think and say about some things, but there's no one who's every thought i want to know. don't care how anyone feels about anyone else, if that level of sharing doesn't get annoying eventually, you're still in the honeymoon phase, or you're just lying to yourself.
moomoo11 · 9m ago
More that I don’t care to “follow” and “like” people. Just being honest like I said
I don’t give a crap what people think or say for the most part.
PaulKeeble · 1h ago
The bluesky transfer extension helps a lot as well, helps you find the same users you follow on twitter on bluesky. https://www.sky-follower-bridge.dev/
hombre_fatal · 2h ago
It's a great idea.
I make a new Twitter account every time I realize I'm stuck in the same thought loops every day with the same timeline. And every time it's pretty annoying to restart from scratch.
I'll pick a couple accounts to start off the timeline and then autofollow Twitter's "follow these 7 ppl too" recommendation, but I often start following the similar accounts every time.
I'd like an easy way to try out completely different feeds without having to know ahead of time who I want to seed it with.
A starter pack in comparison is a one-click embubbler. We need better bubble explorers and comparers. Like "Grok, me and @joe disagree on <topic-x>. Compare the relevant items in each of our feeds and summarize the difference in values, facts and sources that we consume."
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Surely it'd be easier to just view the delta? Once you have an algorithm in there summarizing things that value is lost.
You can already do this by scraping their follows list and building a pseudo display of what a person looked at.
Every time I go to Youtube and I see "the X situation is insane!" I'm like "what is even X? Why are you showing me this?"
The whole social media landscape is engineered toward drama and people arguing over pointless things they have no control over, being controversial all for "engagement." It's pretty depressing.
Interesting that you do not feel the need to lead by example.
OT but I must be a weirdo because I just don’t get any satisfaction out of these apps.
I just don’t give that much of a shit about what other people think or say.
HN is enough for me lol.
It's weird because on Tumblr you can post posts of any size, place images anywhere you want, edit posts, edit tags afterwards, and all this cool stuff... but no, people WANT to use the character-limited immutable post with embedded hashtags thing for some reason. I don't get it.
I make a new Twitter account every time I realize I'm stuck in the same thought loops every day with the same timeline. And every time it's pretty annoying to restart from scratch.
I'll pick a couple accounts to start off the timeline and then autofollow Twitter's "follow these 7 ppl too" recommendation, but I often start following the similar accounts every time.
I'd like an easy way to try out completely different feeds without having to know ahead of time who I want to seed it with.