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Specifically, it's algorithms that by design work against the user's interest in favor of the company's interest (ads, engagement bait, etc).

If the developers of a social network have incentives that are more aligned with their users then it would be possible to create genuinely useful and interesting algorithmic content feeds.

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Indeed, I also think we're, as a society, missing a fundamental freedom: algorithmic transparency.

That's the ability, that should be a right, to know in particular for widely available or impactful systems, what is the algorithm behind their feed, from raw data sources (and also the parameters should be public). Choices are made for us that could be very bad or against or interests (for example, to promote engagement or ad consumption), and we have pretty much no way of really knowing that. Let's fight for algorithmic transparency!

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