warning: anecdotal. back when i wasn't banned on twitter, it was doing a good job surfacing outside, surprising content, seemingly without repetitous design. i got interesting tech tidbits from surprising places, regularly.

sugar is just one substance. i'm on mastodon & chilling elsewhere. these days there's a little less animosity & hostility in the algorithm vs timeline view, but for a while popular outrage against the algorithm was high. and i didn't buy in. i saw the algorithm as giving me good content, outside content, different things i wouldn't have seen.

i think there are dangerous avenues too. i'd like to know more about how many other people got recommended the "niche" "interesting" content i saw, get some idea how broadscale versus personal it was. but it was working for me. it wasn't an echo chamber. it was surfacing interesting tech topics.