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> if it can only ward off the manipulations of the yacht class.

The inevitable enshittification of goods and services once they reach a certain level of maturity (i.e., profitability) basically guarantees that the yachted-classes will be involved.

Given this de-facto inevitability, the original premise (that algorithmic content is eventually a bad thing) makes more sense

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It's not inevitable though.

Emails, torrents, Mastodon, VLC, Blender, Linux - They're all either solid, or even getting better over time.

Why? Because the capital class were explicitly denied, by design or by principle.

Like with healthcare, transport, post services, housing, and much else, there's simply areas where the public good is too important to give the profit motive too strong a foothold. I believe social media is one of those areas.

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