[saurik]

FWIW, my position is today (and has been for many years now) that recommendation systems are inherently problematic, so you aren't exactly trapping me in some kind of contradiction or paradox here by asking me "but how else could it be done?!"... I'd argue that some things simply shouldn't be done.

In the case of social networks, I think they served a positive function to both society and the people who used them back when they didn't have the recommendation algorithms, and your feeds were curated by you choosing to follow people explicitly; this, however, was not profitable, so we are now here.

If you are to do it, then yes: I think you probably need to do what TikTok is doing, and have humans heavily involved in the recommendation system in a way that attempts to put a hand on the wheel rather than the Google way to approach problems with algorithms on top of algorithms and no humans anywhere.