HyperTexting Makes the Entire Web a Social Feed for Your Doomscrolling Pleasure

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. Per the app’s website, HyperTexting allows users to follow basically any feed that you can find online: news outlets, independent journalists, content creators, podcasters—as long as they have an RSS feed available, HyperTexting can pick up on it. Once you follow, the content is put into your feed and shown to you on a reverse-chronological timeline, with the newest content populating first and allowing you to scroll down t