HyperTexting Makes the Entire Web a Social Feed for Your Doomscrolling Pleasure
HyperTexting is a new app that allows users to aggregate content from RSS feeds into a social-media-style timeline, bypassing algorithmic curation. The app aims to provide a cleaner, user-controlled alternative to traditional social media feeds.
Why it matters
The app represents a growing trend of 'anti-algorithm' tools designed to give users more agency over their digital consumption habits.
Spend far too many hours mindlessly scrolling social media feeds, where a black-box algorithm fine-tuned for maximum engagement dictates what you see—and maximizes your sense of doom in the process? Well, what if you could spend entirely too many hours mindlessly scrolling something that *looks* like your social feed, but it’s actually just the stuff you want to see?
That’s the theory behind HyperTexting, a new app that promises to rebuild your timeline around the content you like without advertisements, algorithms, or AI slop. The app was built by Caleb Hailey, a 20-year tech industry veteran and RSS feed evangelist who has a desire to return the modern web to something closer to what it could have been if we hadn’t let the social giants devour the whole thing.
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