I agree the world was better with chronological feeds.
But humans prefer to spent more time on enraging/outrageous content.
So in a competitive social media environment - the platform with the most engaging content will win.
When TikTok launched short form Video - instagram’s choice was to copy or lose.
"prefer" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here.
it is intentional, or is it engineered?
Agreed, the state of social media today is basically a result of market failure.
Didn't the US have a very vibrant culture of highly partisan outrage papers and pamphlets in the 19th century?