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by chestervonwinch 1270 days ago
The feed used to be a simple chronological timeline. Then it evolved into whatever stochastic mess it is now in an attempt to maximize user engagement and ad views. So they've turned the notifications into essentially a mini version of the old news feed which (big surprise) is damn noisy.
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I feel strongly that infinite scroll needs to be either illegalized or heavily regulated.
The infinite scroll isn't really the issue here (though I wouldn't mind a law mandating a toggle).