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."
You can already do this by scraping their follows list and building a pseudo display of what a person looked at.
It’s a subtle but important (and hard to admit) difference; because it relies on realizing that we’re not special snowflakes, but we have a whole group of people we’re like.
> because it relies on realizing that we’re not special snowflakes, but we have a whole group of people we’re like
yet buckets become more valuable the more specific they are (for example "dad of 3" is more valuable than "male"). it's not hard to see how that would scale into "every detail about the person would allow maximally manipulative advertising = most valuable", just think about any vulnerable position you might find yourself in that can now be used to manipulate you
I imagine it’s one reason why X/Twitter made likes private as they want people to like things for the algorithm but not be judged for their likes.
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.
The comic is about not criticizing people who want to see improvement in something in which they participate. It isn't saying hypocrisy can't be criticized, just that we shouldn't misidentify hypocrisy. Notice the characters aren't saying that no one should buy an Apple product/car or participate in society. The replies are tangential to their original complaints. In order to see hypocrisy, the replier needs to view any participation as a full fledge endorsement, which is a silly thing to do.
Meanwhile, OP genuinely is acting hypocritically because they are doing the exact thing they are criticizing, posting an option to the Internet. The original replier is therefore not the one embodying this comic, it's you.
The interesting thing about HN in that context is it doesn’t fine-tune its algorithm per-user, it presents a consistent view to all users. Content should be much less positive-feedback-loop because of that.
And so OP might not be hypocritical if that consistent-view is the change we need to better our society.
OP is talking about very specific kinds of opinions here, not forum posts. Other than that, a librarian often has to talk out loud in order to tell people to keep quiet.
Surely it'd be easier to just view the delta? Once you have an algorithm in there summarizing things that value is lost.
As an example, I built a "For You" feed https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:3guzzweuqraryl3rdkimjamk/fe... that finds the posts you liked, finds other people who liked the same posts and shows you what else they liked.
To help me debug the algorithm I built a simple web UI that allows you to see the feed for any user by plugging their account id: https://linklonk.com/bluesky
You can switch perspective to other users and explore how the would experience the feed.
Now this feature could be used to reinforce your bubble (the crazy and dystopian scenario you refer to) instead of bursting out of it. How you see such a feature may be more telling about your own personality than about the feature itself.
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.
This was my default feed to be fair, if I'd taken the time to follow some good people maybe it would be better.
The people who should actually care are advertisers, who are probably getting scammed for vast numbers of dollars.
Unbubbled people have a wide range of interests and preferences that cannot be captured in a few "starter packs".
For me the golden age of social media. Lots of niche hobby discussion and not a lot of noise.
[1] https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/07/threads-is-nearing-xs-dail...
The great thing about decentralized social network is that you can easily push to all of those accounts and if I were Bluesky, I would make it easy to link Threads and Mastodon to Bluesky so you can push messages to all 3.
hombre_fatal•6mo ago
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.
WJW•6mo ago
> Get stuck in the same thought loops every time on twitter, remake your account in slightly different ways every time until the algorithm catches you again.
> Still don't realize it's twitter itself which is the problem.
It really sounds you would be better off by just deleting it altogether.
hombre_fatal•6mo ago
I get value from Twitter and I just acknowledged that it's quite shit, so you'll have to elaborate on what you think I'm missing. I don't like how it turns my timeline racist/political over time. I mostly follow indie gamedev chit chat. The community is on Twitter.
Bluesky/Mastodon aren't a real option. They are a splinter group who complain about Twitter all day and everything is infected with just-as-rotten political discourse.
WJW•6mo ago
The original post you posted seemed like you were very much annoyed at twitter turning into shit each time, yet you were looking for solution in restarting accounts regularly. I don't think that's the problem: Twitter is just home to a great many shit people and it gets more engagement from exposing the most controversial people to everyone else. Timelines always converge to racism and hatred, no matter who you initially follow. Your desire to follow just indie gamedev talk doesn't matter to Twitter, sadly enough.