Scrolling is like crawling

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Scrolling is too narrow a vision of whats online, how can it be better?

How can we improve the scroll interface to be more information dense? There are a lot of ways of analyzing social media communities, looking at network relations of followers is often interesting:

First and second degree follows of antaressimon.bsky.social

This following network shows you that most of the people antaressimon.bsky.social follows themselves follow Jay Hightman, Jon Corsilgia, and Plastic Free Frontline. In some sense, those accounts define, or at least point towards an echo chamber.

There are many parameters to fine-tune network charts like this, but even more exciting is the possibility of sending LLMs off to categorize and summarize accounts, feeds, and events.

Events that go viral fall into multiple categories, and categories themselves go in and out of virility, here's a loose sketch of something more abstract:

Events or posts can have overlapping categorizations
Tom