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 It's an issue with decentralization tho. What is worth showing? What is not worth showing? How do you globally define that? Twitter taught us engagement farming algorithms with lots of debates is what gets in our feeds, even if they are stupid and enraging. Or better especially if they are. I think having competition for a while on what good content discovery is is the right step forward, we will see which ones people like and which ones not. The default case is not having an algorithm but a regular timeline. Algos are a tool, for example to see stuff you would have otherwise missed. People can use them or not. Or use other ones. Or even build their own ones. That's the beauty of this approach.