It's really annoying that I can't consume information from social media sites without also opting into all of their slot-machine like mechanisms. Twitter is designed to pull people in and the main website contains a lot of gamification mechanisms that are designed to keep people on the site.

For a while already I had the idea of building a "diet social media" software that would display information from e.g. Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook and other platforms without gamified addiction mechanisms. Turns out this is impossible to do as all platforms have drastically restricted the way you can consume their data.

This already exists. It's called RSS.

https://lukesmith.xyz/blog/a-guide-to-using-rss-to-replace-s...

The only major issue with RSS is a dearth of decent feed-reader software. I personally use newsboat[0], but elfeed[1] also looks pretty good if you're an Emacs Chad.

[0] https://newsboat.org/ [1] https://github.com/skeeto/elfeed