The way it used to be was that, if you wanted a newsfeed, you had to pay a curation company to print you off some stories and leave them on your doorstep in the

The way it used to be was that, if you wanted a newsfeed, you had to pay a curation company to print you off some stories and leave them on your doorstep in the morning. The era of non-algorithmic social media feeds was maybe 5 years long if I’m being generous, and I’m skeptical it could have become load bearing in that time.