I remember when RSS first started and I realized I could basically curate my own personal newspaper/magazine and it was the greatest thrill of my online life, and ever since I've realized people HATE that, that's the WORST part of online for them, they just want TV you can fave
I felt betrayed when i came back to my Google Reader after my first semester of law school, excited to catch up on the past 3 months of news, blogs, and webcomics, and… finding only 30 days bc that’s as far as it went. This was 2008. I stopped seeking out anything after that
Had this experience, too. It's utterly mind-blowing to me that huge majorities prefer(?!?!?!?) social media sites to serve them random shit from sources that they didn't actively choose to follow.