It began as an extension of your close network: family, friends, and peers.
Now it mirrors the platform’s profit motive.
Meta admits: only 7% of Instagram time is spent on friends’ posts. Facebook: 17% and falling.
The rest is the algorithm.

The algorithm doesn’t serve a connection.
It serves attention. It serves revenue.

What you get is an echo chamber, with agreement repeated. The difference disappears.
Without difference, feedback as the filter that sustains society fades.

The truths are:

• Beauty comes from difference.

• Bonds come from tolerance.

• Growth comes from friction.

• Nature drifts toward entropy, not order.

But the algorithms push the opposite: clean, ordered, sterile.

"I thought I found the connector, but it's just a Reflektor.” - Arcade Fire, Reflektor

The principle is owning your feed.

Apply first principles.
Audit your tools.
Protect your tier-one ties.

If the problem is ownership, the solution isn’t “better algorithms.”
It’s networks that are open, permissionless, human.

No central feed.
No hidden algorithm.
Only signals from people you choose, not platforms you rent.

Long live the real network.