🌀doomscrollstats.com
1Record
2Analyse
3Your doomscroll
You can't see it from the inside

See the algorithm that's feeding you.

Capture a minute of your feed. We read it on your device and show you the shape of what you're being served — what it's training you to be, feel & buy, and how far it's drifted from the middle.

📵 The platforms know exactly what they funnel you — it's what keeps you scrolling. They just never show you. This does.

No sign-up, no account, ever. Read by an AI and instantly discarded — or fully on your device if you pick Quick. Nothing about you is ever stored.
🔒 Private — nothing about you is stored 🆓 Free forever ⚖️ Non-partisan by design
👨‍👧 Doing this with your kids? Read the 2-minute parent guide →

Capture your feed

Two easy ways: screenshot your feed 15–20 times as you scroll, or screen-record it for a minute or so. The more you capture, the sharper the read — a quick peek only shows a couple of directions.

🤔 Why do I have to record it myself?
Your feed is unique to you — there's no login, API or public page that reveals what the algorithm is serving you. The only way to see it is to capture what it actually put on your screen. It's read on your device and never uploaded. That's also exactly why the platforms are comfortable hiding it: it's invisible by default.

Drop it in

Nothing about you is stored — ever.

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Drop your screenshots (or a screen recording)

Select them all at once — 15+ is ideal (more = sharper). Or tap to choose.

🔒 nothing about you is stored
Read with

Deep is the default — an AI (Amazon Nova) reads the text for the sharpest result, then discards it (nothing is stored). Prefer to keep everything on your device? Pick Quick.

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Or see it instantly with a sample feed
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Your doomscroll is…
The read
What your algorithm is doing to you
Where you land
How left / right your feed leans — and where most people sit
What you're being fed
The lanes the algorithm keeps serving you
Bias compass
Where your feed sits — news outlets are the fixed landmarks
News outlet Your feed A post The middle
Diet breakdown
How your feed splits across the spectrum
Topic concentration
What it feeds you — a spike = fixation
Emotional tone
How it makes you feel — vs a calm diet
Balance score

Center of gravity

Viewpoint range

Outrage / heat
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About doomscrollstats.com

Your feed has a shape you can't see from the inside. doomscrollstats.com holds up a mirror: it reads the posts an algorithm serves you and shows what it's reinforcing — what it's quietly trying to make you be, feel, and buy.

It's free, a mirror not an alarm, and non-partisan by design — a hard-left and a hard-right bubble score the same. Your screenshots are read on your device (or, for the sharper read, by a cheap model on the server); nothing about you is stored.

Built because algorithms quietly shape what millions of us think, and almost no one gets to watch it happen. Now works on X, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube.

📐 How it works — methodology & honest limitations

How this works

1. You capture your feed. Screenshots or a short screen-recording of your For You / home feed. Text feeds (X, YouTube, LinkedIn, Reddit, Facebook) are read on your device; image feeds (Instagram, TikTok) are sent to a model and immediately discarded.

2. It reads the posts. On-device: Tesseract.js (OCR) plus a small in-browser model. Sharper reads and image feeds use Amazon Nova (Micro for text, Pro for vision) on a server that stores nothing.

3. It scores & summarises. Each post gets a political lean (−1 to +1), emotional heat (0–1), a topic, and a rough "bot / low-effort" estimate. From those it writes the read: what your feed is, what it's trying to make you be/feel/buy, your blind spots, and which accounts shape it.

Non-partisan by design

Extremity is measured symmetrically — a hard-left and a hard-right feed of equal intensity get equal-magnitude scores. The tool takes no side; it measures the shape of your feed, not whether you're right or wrong.

Honest limitations

Classifying short posts and images is inherently uncertain. Account lean is solid for well-known accounts and a rough guess for small ones. The "% bot" figure and news-outlet positions are estimates, not facts. Treat every score as a conversation starter, not a verdict.

Privacy

No account, no tracking cookies. Text feeds never leave your device. Image feeds are read once and discarded — nothing about you is stored. The code is open source.

📊 The State of the Feed

A live, anonymous snapshot of what the algorithms are serving everyone who's checked. Only counts — never anyone's actual feed.

👨‍👧 Doing this with your kids

A calm way to see what their feed is really serving them — a conversation starter, not an inspection.

The golden rule

Run it on your own feed first, together. Seeing your own bubble before theirs disarms the whole thing — and it's genuinely surprising. It never says anyone's been "radicalised"; it just shows the shape of a feed.

Two ways to do it

A
Side by side. Sit together and screenshot or screen-record their For You feed on their phone — two minutes.
B
They do it, then share. If they'd rather do it privately, they run it themselves and tap "Create a share link" to send you the result. Nothing is stored unless they choose to.

📩 Send your teen a nudge

Copy a friendly, low-pressure message to text them — curiosity works far better than a lecture.

What to look at together

  • How much outrage the feed runs on — is it keeping them wound up?
  • What it's quietly training them to be, feel & buy.
  • The viewpoints and topics it never shows them.
  • How much is AI / bot filler versus real people.

Let the result start the conversation — not win an argument.

⚖️ Compare feeds

See how your bubble stacks up against a friend's. Non-partisan — it's about who's more boxed-in, not who's right.

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See your social media filter bubble

Every social feed is shaped by an algorithm you can't see. doomscrollstats.com is a free tool that reads your feed — on X (Twitter), Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Reddit, LinkedIn or Facebook — and shows you the shape of your filter bubble: what the algorithm is quietly training you to be, feel and buy, how much outrage and rage-bait it runs on, which accounts and viewpoints dominate, the perspectives it never shows you, and how much is AI-generated slop. It's non-partisan by design, reads your feed on your device (or via an AI that stores nothing), and is fully open-source.

Frequently asked questions

What is a filter bubble or echo chamber?
A filter bubble is the narrowed, personalised slice of content an algorithm decides to show you — steadily reinforcing what you already believe or react to, while quietly hiding opposing views. Over time it can make one perspective feel like the whole world. doomscrollstats.com makes that invisible shaping visible.
Is doomscrollstats.com free?
Yes — completely free, with no ads and no account required. If you find it useful you can buy the maker a coffee, but nothing is gated.
Do you store my feed or my data?
No. Text feeds can be read entirely on your device; image feeds are read once by an AI (Amazon Nova) and immediately discarded. Nothing about you or your feed is stored — only anonymous aggregate counts (like the balance-score distribution) that power the State of the Feed page.
Is it politically biased?
No — it's non-partisan by construction. Extremity is measured symmetrically, so a hard-left feed and a hard-right feed of equal intensity get equal-magnitude scores. It measures the shape of your feed, not whether you're right or wrong.
Which platforms does it work with?
X (Twitter), Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Reddit, LinkedIn and Facebook.
How do I check my feed?
Take 15–20 screenshots of your For You / home feed as you scroll, or screen-record it for a minute, then drop them in. It reads the posts and shows your result in seconds.