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Why not just:

- A subscription requires explicit opt-in (not "oh, yeah, I met that dude once in college," or, "oh, yeah, I eat Cheerios and 'Like' them")

- A subscription is easy to cancel

- The filtering/sorting algorithm is "show the newest items first"

That seems like an ethical news feed to me, and it's basically what you get with any RSS reader, right?



So shocking that these services make no effort to incorporate that standard....




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