But... the "business model" you are defending is something we all know is bullshit: maximizing engagement to collect data on users and sell advertisements :(. W

But... the "business model" you are defending is something we all know is bullshit: maximizing engagement to collect data on users and sell advertisements :(. Why should we go out of our way to help this exist? I am not "tying myself into a logical pretzel" to do the comparison: I'm carefully considering the tradeoffs with the goal of penalizing things I don't like to get the things I do. The original model of Instagram--and Facebook! and (mostly, but not entirely) Twitter--is that you have an account, and people who follow you can see what you post, in time order. There is absolutely no reason why they need centralized moderation for this: the moderation comes from people deciding to unfollow you if they don't like your content for absolutely any personal reason. If the result of this is that you can't have a massive behemoth social network that only scales because it is using biased AIs to filter content while attempting to maximize "engagement" by pushing people to extreme positions while washing their hands of the whole mess by claiming "wasn't us: this is on the users!" even though the editorial decisions are their own... THAT'S GREAT!