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Yeah that’s what social media was 10 years ago. It was better, more like a big sprawling group chat than a stream of engagement bait.

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It's not better as demonstrated by the revealed preferences of a vast majority of the users. People DO want algorithmic feeds and NOT chronological feeds. It's a common narrative here that everyone wants chronological feeds, but it's not true just like the claim "Everyone wants small phones". People say one thing and do another.

I don’t accept the results as revealed preference.

1. Users are not given a choice (well, accept to leave, and I know many people who have).

2. This is measured on time spent, not user satisfaction.

In practice, we demonstrated that algorithms designed to be addictive are addictive (success?), not that there’s an actual preference.

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