About antidoom
antidoom is a feed you can scroll for as long as you like, where every card is worth knowing: science, history, geography, culture, technology, good videos and the news that matters.
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No algorithm
There are no engagement tricks. Nothing learns what you click or watch, and there are no likes or follower counts. Everyone starts with the same default feed. If you want, you can change it yourself: in settings, choose "My order" and rank the topics (higher topics get a bigger share of your feed), or mute a topic for six hours (at least five stay on). Signing in is optional: it only keeps your saves, settings and the cards you've seen in sync across devices.
How cards are chosen
We read public feeds from publishers, YouTube channels and Wikipedia. An AI model (Anthropic's Claude) scores each item for substance, surprise and clarity, and only the best get in. Cards come from thirteen topics: Politics, News, Science & tech, Mind & body, Money & economics, History, Mythology, Nature & planet, Arts, ideas & society, Pop & fun, Sports, Oddities, and World cultures & travel. They are taken in a random rotation, so no topic takes over, and videos are mixed in. Any ten cards in a row come from ten different sources. We favour clear, intelligent writing: accessible science, history and ideas, not research papers, listicles or clickbait. When the new cards run out, you get "classics": older pieces that are just as good today.
"The gist"
Each card has a gist of a few sentences, a "So what" that says why it matters, and often a fun fact. All of it is written by AI (Anthropic's Claude) from the publisher's own text and well-known background. It can be wrong. The full story always belongs to the publisher: the small link at the end of each card opens the original.
News cards
News stories are found with data from the GDELT Project, which tracks news coverage worldwide, and checked against Wikipedia's Current Events (CC BY-SA 4.0). Each news card has our own headline and gist, with links to several outlets from different countries so you can read the story where you like.
Publishers
We show a headline, a short summary in our own words, the publisher's name and a link to the original. We never copy full articles or get around paywalls. If you are a publisher and want your work removed or shown differently, email hello@antidoom.net and we will act quickly.