A different objective
Most feeds are tuned to hold your attention. Feason’s feed is tuned to leave you better than it found you. Content is scored for edification — hope, growth, dignity, repentance, lament, peacemaking — and penalized for reactivity — contempt, fear-stoking, tribalism, shame, despair.
The penalty is deliberately heavier than the reward. A post that stirs contempt loses more than a merely pleasant post gains, because we think harm outweighs polish. That asymmetry is a moral choice, and we’re glad to be held to it.
One thing this means in practice: lament is not negativity. Grief, doubt, and hard self-examination offered with vulnerability rank high here, not low. A feed that only permits triumph would be lying about the Christian life.
Personal, but never sealed
The feed also considers what you’ve been studying and engaging with, so what you see connects to where you actually are. But personalization on Feason is not allowed to seal you in: some of every feed is reserved for quality posts *outside* your usual patterns, and Scripture passages are placed directly into the stream. The goal is long-term formation, not maximum comfort.
What it reads — and what it never reads
- Used: your public activity — gleams you post, what you like, save, and reply to, how long you linger on feed items, and your Scripture notes. Recent weeks matter most; older activity fades.
- Never used: your Discernment journal. Entries are encrypted in your browser before they reach us, so the recommender *cannot* read them — it’s excluded by construction, not by policy. Direct messages aren’t used for feed personalization either.
For the fuller story of why Feason works this way, read our mission.