[CookieMon]

I'd like to see what happens if psychologists design a social media platform around encouraging positive healthy interactions.

I can think of many improvements:

* Boosting instead of retweeting can avoid viral outrage, explanation - https://www.codesections.com/blog/mastodon-elevator-pitch/

* Reduce the incentives & rewards for signalling and curating an online identity, e.g. avoid Like buttons and Share'd content. Snapchat shows it's possible for Like-less social media without curated identity to still be popular, despite lacking Like-button dopamine hits, and the vacuum left by viral content and image grooming might¹ be replaced with socializing with your friends and ability to be yourself (¹ see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11828280)

* Should "goes on your permanent record" always be the platform's default behavior for social interactions?

But I'm just a mere coder watching social media make my social circles ill, I wonder what systems real psychologists could come up with and test.