agreed, and I worry that the whole "limiting reach", "deamplification" weirdness at twitter, is essentially an implicit, more authoritarian version of this
Elon has said he'd be more transparent abt that stuff, tho idk if it's happened yet? I do think it's a reasonable compromise for ppl posting radioactive shit - having to seek it out instead of blundering into it in the For You
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