How to Keep Scrolling in Out of Order Timelines

I think the I think what's made a lot of social media platforms really addictive is infinite scrolling in out of order timelines. On Twitter, for example, when you scroll on the like the for you page, the regular page, it doesn't show things in the order they were posted. So even if you keep scrolling and scrolling and scrolling, you're not going to hit the point where you notice something you've already seen. Whereas over on Mastodon or an IRC channel, you can only scroll so far before you get to the last thing you read. It's sort of a natural end point. TikTok is really bad for this. Like TikTok would just keep suggesting more and more

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