Quite the opposite actually -- the goal is to make it less appealing. Social media is designed to be addictive and prey on base psychological impulses.

So people find non-chronological feeds and suggested content appealing?

I thought people were always saying they hated these features.

The tiny fraction of people who comment on HN say that. It is folly to believe this place represents public opinion.

Compelling != appealing.

I can’t risk going near “idle” genre games, because even the ones I hate I find incredibly compelling.

Fixing the problem would just be removing the RT / Share button. That’s it. Then we would all use it less because it wouldn’t be that interesting at all.

That may help, but I suspect it will not be enough. Perhaps limiting people to mutual relationships (can’t follow without a follow back) and a maximum following/followers count of 256 to avoid parasocial relationships? (Only semi joking)