There is far, far too much information out there, and the things outputted from the things you follow is a 'decent start' but it's not what you want.
Systrom is exactly right and better algs is what we need.
TikTok is a great social medial platform, it's fun, irreverent, and the alg allows you to find niches in content that would not exist otherwise. I've found this guy who does videos on his sheep herding dogs, it's so fun to watch.
Applying a great filter to all of my youtube/news feeds is one of the most meaningful ways to improve my content feed.
Yes - we want to make sure people have the option to follow exactly what they want and hopefully to adjust the feed parameters ... but I would love to get rid of the fuzz in my feed.
This is decent innovation and it could affect a lot of people, it's fine to be a bit sus but I don't think we should be cynical.
You don't have to use it.