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Yes, people do understand, and they talk about how they prefer Facebook or Twitter or Fediverse or TikTok or whatever based on the different ways that algorithms choose different content to present to them.
You illustrate this pretty well as you seem to like that "sense of a system as you are living in it over time." A TON of people are not looking for that experience and are turned off by it!
Like I said, a diversity of preferences. Some like the firehose and thrive in it. Some hate it as overstimulation.
It's like introvert vs extrovert, not to mention practicalities of how it fits into peoples' daily lives and what they have time for.
