I don’t use social media much. I spend around 30 minutes a day on X and sometimes Reddit. I stopped using Instagram a few months ago because my feed had become repetitive, distracting, and full of content I never intentionally asked for. And I usually have a purpose of scrolling, but this is getting harder day by day because of so much brainrot content. Whereas my partner is very found of scrolling, and I have noticed heat in our relationship when she take relationship advice from instagram or watches a movie like metro in dino. For a long time, I had been saving useful articles, posts, videos, and tools through a browser extension I vibe coded. It automatically organized everything into interests and topics.
Recently, I realixed that this saved history could represent my actual taste much better than likes, clicks, or watch time. So I asked claude to create a profile md file containing the subjects I care about, the type of content I find useful, and anything not mentioned there falls in the avoid list.
I now use this profile as a filter while browsing. It reduces repetitive or irrelevant content and keeps things that are more likely to be useful to me. Using gpt-5 mini for the classification as this decision doesn;t require to be using frontier models and is cost effective
I was also worried that this could create an echo chamber, so it considers freshness and variety. It still allows unfamiliar ideas, important news, and content outside my usual interests but makes sure they are not repetitive.
The idea is to have an algorithm that I control, based on what I deliberately save, rather than one trained mainly on what keeps me scrolling.
I am curious whether other people would want something like this.
Would you trust a personal algorithm built from your saved content? What would it need to do before you would actually use it?