[potatolicious]

But I don't want to receive ALL the content. Unfortunately social media "consultants" and "experts" have decided to conflate spamminess with user engagement, and many businesses I legitimately want to hear from have taken to broadcasting every minutiae of what they do.

The black-boxiness of the algorithm is non-ideal, but some algorithm is required.

[nhangen]

What FB has done is force people to game the system in order to appear in the feed, which results in more content than people are able to consume, which results in the fact that we don't want to see it all because some of it is junk.

This is a problem that Facebook has created, and one they will wrestle with until they either fix it and save their business, or are displaced by an upstart.