Your points are good but I wonder if you’re wishing for an ideal that has never existed: > actually surfacing the content people want to see, not what intermed

Your points are good but I wonder if you’re wishing for an ideal that has never existed: > actually surfacing the content people want to see, not what intermediaries want them to see Requires two assumptions, 1) the content people want to see actually exists, 2) people know what it is they want to see. Most content is only created in the first place because somebody wants another person to see it, and people need to be exposed to a range of content before having an idea about what else they might want to see. Most of the time what people want to see is… what other people are seeing. Look at music for example.