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An infinite scroll engineered so you never reach the bottom or your point.
means A continuously updated stream of posts, articles, or updates delivered to you in one running list, typically on a social media platform or app.
from A straightforward compound of "news" and "feed." "News" is medieval English for "new things" — literally the plural of "new." "Feed" carried a technical sense from broadcasting and wire services, where a "feed" was a continuous transmission of content piped from a source. The word "newsfeed" gained its modern life in the digital age, especially after social platforms in the 2000s adopted it for the auto-updating list of items pushed to a user — the metaphor being that you are perpetually "fed" content, much as livestock are fed without ever choosing the menu.
- design goal
- Bottomless by intention, not accident
- algorithm bias
- Outrage spreads faster than nuance
- refresh trick
- Pull-to-refresh mimics a slot machine
- chronology dead
- Order chosen by engagement, not time
- first feed
- Facebook launched it in 2006
facebook news feed — launched 2006, shows personalized content from friends and pages to 3 billion monthly users
twitter home timeline — core feature since 2006, displays tweets from followed accounts in reverse chronological order
reddit home feed — aggregates top posts from subscribed subreddits, ranking by upvotes and recency
tiktok for you page — algorithm-driven feed launched 2016, shows short videos to 1 billion monthly users