A feed default communicates whether the product prioritizes discovery, relationships, or control. Stranger feeds provide immediate content before a user has a graph but can feel arbitrary; friends feeds are legible and personal but require an active graph; topic feeds need a concrete job and may lose to a general feed. Define the promise first, then test a product-specific first-session action rather than generic scrolling.

[The Feed Default Is a Product Decision](<https://www.first1000.co/blog/feed-default-friends-or-strangers>)

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