Your feed has no opinion about what you should see.
Posts from the people you follow, in the order they were posted. And when you want a different view of the world, you can borrow someone else's.
Briefs are the short posts at the heart of LENDZ, each up to 180 characters. Your Main Feed shows the posts and reposts of the people you follow in the order they were made, newest first, and nothing reorders them. View Their World lets you open someone's profile and read their feed instead: everyone they follow, in the same strict time order.
Newest first, and nothing else
Your Main Feed answers one question: what have the people I follow posted, and when? It reads a single list of their posts and reposts, sorted by the moment each one was made, newest at the top. There is no engagement score, no predicted interest, no quiet promotion of whatever happens to be performing. A post nobody has shaken hands with lands exactly where a popular one would.
That makes the feed honest about what you missed. If something passed you by, it is because you stopped scrolling, not because a model decided it wasn't for you.
Two things keep it readable. Replies stay in their threads: a reply lives under the post it answers, on that post's own page, in search and in tags, and it shows in your own Main Feed only when you wrote it, labelled with who you were answering. And the media filter (All, Text, Photo or Video) narrows what you are looking at by type without ever touching the order.
Every way to answer a post
The action bar under every post carries the same controls in the same order: Handshake, Reply, ReBrief, Bookmark, Share and Temperature. Frame, quoting a post with your own take around it, opens from the ReBrief button.
What each control means
Handshake
Stand behind a post. One per person, undone with a second tap, and every post you have shaken hands with is kept together on a page of its own.
Reply
Answer in the thread. Replies gather on the post's own page and stay out of other people's feeds, so an argument never takes over anyone's timeline.
ReBrief
Pass a post to your followers exactly as it stands, with your name on the share. Anyone who would rather not see your shares can mute them without unfollowing you.
Frame
Quote a post with your own take wrapped around it. The original stays attached underneath, so the context travels with the comment.
Temperature
A slider under every post, from cool to hot. Drag it to say how heated a post reads to you. It is for readers: you never set it on your own posts.
Borrow a feed: View Their World
Every profile offers a door, unless its owner has closed it: View Their World. Open it and your Main Feed steps aside. In its place is that person's feed: their own posts, the posts of everyone they follow, and the reposts those people chose to share, in strict time order. A banner names whose world you are standing in, and one tap takes you home.
This is the idea LENDZ is built around. Who someone follows is a portrait of how they make sense of things: the reporters they trust, the people they argue with, the friends they keep. Reading their feed for a while tells you more about how they see the world than any bio could. It is also the fastest way to find people worth following yourself.
Borrowing is reading, not impersonation. You react, reply and follow as yourself. Replies are left out of a borrowed feed, so you see what they follow rather than the arguments underneath it.
How to borrow a feed
- 01Procedure 01
Find a person
Start wherever you meet someone: a post in your feed, a search result, or a match in Find Your People.
- 02Procedure 02
Open their world
Tap View Their World on their profile or on their Find Your People result. Your own feed steps aside.
- 03Procedure 03
Read it the way they do
Their posts and the posts of everyone they follow, newest first. Use the media filter if you only want photos or video.
- 04Procedure 04
Follow what earns it
Anyone you meet in there is one tap away from your own Main Feed.
- 05Procedure 05
Step back out, or stay close
Tap Exit and your own feed is back. Star a world you like and it stays one tap away.
Where to find people worth borrowing
Find Your People works from what people say they care about. Pick a subject, or a pair of them, and it lists members who chose those same interests, most recently active first. Every result carries a View Their World button, so you can try on someone's feed before you decide to follow them.
Explore is the wider front door: search people and keywords, browse by category, and find Newsbriefs, live Briefings and Duels to drop into.
What changes when nothing is ranked
Ranking is a choice about who decides what you see. LENDZ made the other choice, and kept it.
| The question | A ranked feed | Your Main Feed |
|---|---|---|
| Order | Predicted engagement | The moment each post was made, newest first |
| Who decides what you see | A model tuned for attention | The people you chose to follow |
| A post nobody reacted to | Usually sinks | Sits in its place, like any other |
| Whose view you can see | Yours, as the model predicts it | Yours, or anyone's who lets you borrow it |
Who this feed is for
Readers
You want to know you have seen what the people you follow actually said, in the order they said it, and you want to be able to reach the end.
Writers
Your followers see your posts because they chose to follow you, not because you cracked a format. Post when you have something to say.
Curators
Your follows are a point of view others can borrow. Enrolled creators earn a share of the advertising shown when their world is borrowed, and can see how often it happens.
The feed, in facts
Order
Newest first, in your Main Feed and in any feed you borrow.
Length
Each post holds up to 180 characters.
Replies
Kept out of feeds, except your own replies in your own Main Feed.
Media filter
All, Text, Photo or Video. It narrows by type and never reorders.
Your choice
Switch off Borrow Feed visible in Settings and no one can borrow your feed.
Ads
Shown at a fixed interval. They never change the order of the posts around them.
Questions on file
Q01Is the feed really chronological?
Yes. Your Main Feed and every borrowed feed are sorted by the time each post was made, newest first. Nothing is boosted into it, buried in it or recommended into it.
Q02Does someone know when I borrow their feed?
Not by name. Enrolled creators can see how many times their feed was borrowed and by how many different people. They never see who.
Q03Can I stop people from borrowing my feed?
Yes. Turn off Borrow Feed visible in Settings. Your profile stops offering View Their World, and your feed can no longer be borrowed.
Q04Why don't replies show up in my feed?
So conversations stay under the post they belong to. Your own replies still appear in your own Main Feed, labelled with who you were answering, and every reply is on the post's page, in search and in tags.
Q05Can I change what my feed shows?
You can filter it by media type, mute someone's reposts without unfollowing them, and mute or block accounts. Beyond that, your feed is simply the people you follow. To change it, change who you follow, or borrow someone else's for a while.
Q06Are there ads in the feed?
Yes. They appear at a fixed interval and never change the order of the posts around them.
Q07How do I find people to follow?
Find Your People matches you with members who chose the same interests, and Explore lets you search people and keywords or browse by category. Borrowing a feed is the third way, and often the best one.