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Gravitas Threads: Reddit Channel Player — Ditch scrolling watch Reddit in 3D with novel Recommendation
Transforms Reddit threads into a dynamic 3D experience. Created on a novel—custom built physics engine—Gravitas Threads displays Reddit posts based on metrics like upvotes, newness, popularity, and more. It is a real-time recommendation engine.
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Gravitas Threads plays Reddit posts as an interactive, gamified experience. The extension aims to reduce scrolling prevalent in social networks by replacing the wall with an interactive 3D volume of posts. Users can play the simulation to receive recommendations based on heuristics such as upvotes, newness, top, hot, and so on. In addition, the user can pause the simulation to pick video and image posts by clicking on the interactive elements. The last 10 absorbed posts get displayed in a pane which are clickable links to the Reddit pages.
Gravitas Threads is available for free as a google chrome extension.
https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/gravitas-threads-reddit-p/jmalebenadmgjpnieneooompipjanndg?authuser=0&hl=en
The GitHub repo is open source under an MIT license.
https://github.com/richfallatjr/gravitas-threads-chrome
I built the app based off a gravitational formula I've been working on which diverges from Newtonian gravity and Kepler's Laws and finds an averaged gravitational pull from all bodies in the system. This provided an elegant and incredibly efficient real-time physics engine which is built on ThreeJs. The motion mimics planetary orbits and also insects swarming to a certain extent.
Gravitas Threads is unique because it is a real-time recommendation engine which is fast and free in contrast to AI which costs businesses untold, vast amounts of dollars to build and maintain significant models.