a Feed of content dehumanizes humanity and turns us into slaves, ingesting algorithmic slop
the algorithms optimize for engagement, which results in rage bait, engagement farming, etc.
WeWrite App intends to build a new system of incentives, where people will go down carefully crafted rabbit holes of insight and interesting things. Page discovery will allow you to go deep into new ideas.
Yes, WeWrite will technically have a feed. The Activity feed. But this will show changes being made to everyone’s collections of writings, rather than individual posts which each are trying to gain as much attention as possible. It will be a feed of Diff views showing changes made to pages you’re following within context.
feeds are shouting fests, books are calm, non-shouting, reasoned, collected - Towards a less stimulating experience