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Observed arrival · 2026-09-14

DoomFly Puts a Fruit Fly on the Feed

doomfly.dev Observed source
Editorial interest 88/100 Selection signal · not a rating of the site

An interactive experiment lets visitors steer a procedural fruit fly through an endless social feed and watch its simulated nervous system react.

Landing page captured for the 2026-09-14 issue.

Field notes

DoomFly combines a procedural fruit-fly model with a feed interface that includes Feed and Reels modes, stimulus categories, and eight visible activity regions. Its participatory layer gives each visitor one browser-session vote per 15-second round; the selected post then drives the shared specimen, with updates syncing roughly every two seconds. The page identifies 60,000 synthetic points and explicitly separates the experience from validated neuroscience: the anatomy and activity are stylized, and its “dopamine” signal is fictional.

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PrettyNotable craft visible
ProPolished or operationally mature
NicheUnusually specific use

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