[nicgrev103]

I wish someone made a social media site that has no news feed or any feed, like the facebook of old. Only get notifications and updates from actual people who you have friended. I genuinely think this would be popular, it wouldn't drive the engagement that the feeds and algos do but it would be a more wholesome experience the one we all bought into at the dawn of the social network, only for our friends to be swapped out for a constant drip of 'engaging' content.

[edwin2]

I'm convinced something like this will happen one day, probably more than once. If Facebook is the "McDonald's" market segment (the widely popular, wildly unhealthy option), there will eventually be a segment of the market where there is unrelenting demand for a significantly healthier product. Like this: https://www.foodnetwork.com/restaurants/photos/healthy-fast-...

The "health food" of social media will be a product category where there will be market share to capture and whoever gets it right will be rewarded. Those users, like the health nuts of today, will know what there are looking for.

[herpdyderp]

It'll just get enshittified into Facebook when they re-discover the same revenue streams that Facebook has.

[AlienRobot]

I think that social media will never work so long as people can post politics/news/drama/celebrity gossip in it. These are topics that NEVER run out of content. People engaged with it will never find peace and will never let others have peace.

I used to think it was only politics, but I visited a social media like Reddit that filtered politics by default--I forgot what it was called--and it still looked terrible because of all the drama.

It's a colossal waste of time. If you spend 20 hours learning Regex, that will help you for your lifetime. If you spend 20 hours talking about the latest disaster, in 20 hours that is all obsolete because there is a new disaster. And those 20 hours will make you angry and fill you with indignation while even gaming for 20 hours would have a more positive impact on you.

I'm not saying these things aren't important, but they are really not that important compared to how much of the Internet has become soaked with them.

[immy]

Past: Path, Basement.

[krnrrr]

sounds like telegram app to me. yes, there are also channels and groups, but you have "friended" them, so, it was your choice. however, in general it is still to "get notifications and updated from those who you friended".

[TiredOfLife]

So exactly what twitter/bluesky followed tabs are?

[gryn]

what would It do, that WhatsApp currently doesn't ?

[corytheboyd]

Facebook gave you access to friends of friends, which was huge when EVERYONE was on it. That coupled with the Events system was pretty awesome. I don’t know if WhatsApp does this TBH, but it’s something you don’t get with typical messengers.

[stronglikedan]

I don't use WA, but perhaps there could be better discoverability if you have many friends, where the algo could try to prioritize the posts for you.

[mosquitobiten]

Defeat the feed