I think there’s a need for a social media platform that allows users to create multiple customizable feeds tailored to their specific, fluid interests over time.

On sites like Twitter or Mastodon, you mainly just have one feed based on the people or tags you follow. The problem is, to get a whole new customized feed, you’d need to make an entirely new account on these platforms.

On sites like Reddit or Lemmy, there are a few feeds predefined for each community, new, hot, top, etc. This doesn’t offer anything in terms of individual user customization.

I envision a platform where each user can make as many different personalized feeds as they want based around interests that might change over time and the feed would change accordingly without having to start from zero. This could work only for people who opt-in since there are people who dislike this kind of algorithms.

I’m curious to hear any ideas or suggestions people have about how to implement customizable, evolving feeds for each person. And how many resources would it require, would it work on a federated network made of personal computers or would it require a large server?

  • 0x1C3B00DA@kbin.social
    7·
    8 months ago

    Kbin just released Collections, its feature to allow users to create groups of magazines. The microblogging side of the fediverse has lists. It sounds like this is basically what you’re asking for.

    • daredevil@kbin.social
      2·
      8 months ago

      To further add onto this, they can be public or private. Public Collections are able to be followed by other users. This would be helpful for increasing discoverability for fellow users and communities/magazines. You can create Private Collections for personalized feeds that you may not want to share, negating the need to create a new account for feeds with a different theme or purpose.

      • 0x1C3B00DA@kbin.social
        1·
        8 months ago

        It looks like you’re on kbin, which doesn’t have lists. The equivalent feature is Collections but its fairly new. Collections are essentially arbitrary groupings of magazines, similar to reddits multireddits.

        Lists on microblogging platforms allow you to manage multiple groupings of accounts instead of following them all. So your home timeline could be people you know IRL and you could have a list for different interests and you can view each one independently.