That's good, but that's still a recommendation of authors/channels, not articles. It's still who vs what. For me the concept of "subreddits" is the best we've achieved in in terms of social sharing. It was about what over who. You picked a subject, followed a subreddit, and found articles, videos etc... about that subject. Conscious curation on specific subjects.
I still use the old.reddit.com, but few non-tech people do and the primary Reddit interface has pushed people away from the platform and a lot of the smaller subreddits are drying up.
I understand why the changes were made and it brings the question of how can we create social sharing based on subjects that is either distributed (but easy to use by non-tech people) or centralised and profitable?