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 I swallowed the black pill on algorithmic social media, so doomer warning is in effect. Proceed at your own risk.

In my mind, everyone is an alcoholic, drunk, at the bar, and a bunch of these drunks are saying things would be better if we brewed our own beer. 

Most people will use the algorithms to see what they want to see. Dopamine will flow. Social bubbles will form. They won't be challenged. We'll see distributed npub block lists. More people will be phone zombies. Fedi showed us this will happen.

I think chronological feeds are a solution, along with great search functionality. It's not bad to have to put in work to find content. 

But that's just my opinion. At the end of the day, it's really cool that people get to do it however they want. Even if my doomsday scenario happens, at least there's the option of just turning it off. Can't do that anywhere else.