just yesterday, i was thinking about how feed-based social media doesn’t mirror real-life interactions. it’s more like speed dating - every scroll/ table, a new story, a new person.
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Yes, it's not organic. And then the devs twist themselves into a pretzel, trying to squeeze something that "feels organic" out of it, and you end up with spaghetti code or gigantic, sprawling apps no one can navigate.
You can't remove the complexity of organic human interaction, you can only structure to reflect it from the beginning, or frantically try to hide it, after the fact, and risk math-whizzes turning it into a commodity because it's so easy to game a linear system.