Social media users lack control over feeds and scrolling
People who rely on social feeds for connection want to block unwanted content and interrupt compulsive use without abandoning the platforms altogether. The evidence describes people avoiding feeds, missing spoiler tags, or adding friction themselves with Face ID; a user-side tool could combine content filters, surface hiding, and time limits on supported sites. That would not provide platform-wide trust and safety or stop unwanted DMs, and willingness to pay is only directly expressed for a safer social platform.
For social media users seeking safer, less distracting feeds. Mentioned from Oct 2023 to May 2026 on Bluesky and Hacker News.
13 different people described this problem in 13 separate discussions.
- Indie fit
- 3.0/10
- Pain
- 5.2/10
- Frequency
- 9.5/10
- Willingness to pay
- 3.9/10
- Momentum
- 5.0/10
- Who pays
- Consumers
- Competition
- Medium
- Build difficulty
- Medium
What people said
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my options were literally "have the patch ruined for me" or "destroy my socmed feeds and lose a form of communication and socialization
I wish there was a way to just turn off the reels page. That shit is so addictive it’s insane
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