what could have been a nice breakfast

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The election inspired me to question my social-media consumption, and a good bit of the time I've spent on it since has been to disconnect from brands, bands, and orgs I've casually "liked" or "followed" over the years. It puts the fun in dysfunctional to see The Algorithm's convulsions over what it wasn't built to handle gracefully - feeding 4, 5, 6 stories at a time from Smithsonian or SciAm, or deep-diving a week or more to friend posts I've already seen rather than very simply yield up more current posts from people I haven't engaged with in a while.

It also reveals what can only be a calculated avoidance of tools or intention to even-out your engagement across a large friend pool. Meta wants you in a bubble, has very strict ideas about "conserving" content and keeping users in a channel that will maximize emotion.