I wonder though if a recommendation engine is good after all. I wrote a concept with (possibly local) curators to subscribe to and the ability to up- or downvo

I wonder though if a recommendation engine is good after all. I wrote a concept with (possibly local) curators to subscribe to and the ability to up- or downvote them in your news stream. This way everything stays on a 1-to-1 basis. There is no AI judging your clicks (quantitatively I click more cat pictures than 7-page articles, even if I prefer the latter). And no grouping/democracy which I think does not work well for taste-stuff (everybody can agree on cute cats and your bubble agrees on political opinions that are obvious to you, but thought provoking, hard to digest stuff is out again). If anyone is interested I can send you my write up (even has a few pictures in it!).