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> My Twitter feed is all things I haven't followed

So use the "Following" tab? It's right there, for that exact purpose.

I do, it constantly shows ads and posts I do not follow. Hell it had a half-page Trump ad on election day and I'm not even American. It also periodically resets back to the For You tab.

Additionally, reply threads in Twitter make no sense. I'll be following a discussion about sports, and there would be a random (bot? ad?) off-topic post every 4th or 5th reply.

I can't help but see people who design social media algorithms to be complete sociopaths: they want to control people's communications and butt in with "recommendations" completely unwelcome, instead of just letting the participants drive the discussion themselves.

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