The general issue of forcing recommendations and the general population not doing anything manually anymore is separate from the fact that as an individual you have lots of tools to curate your feeds on twitter/facebook/etc.
It's also just really silly to have conversations like:
You're missing the point, recommender algorithms are supposed to show people what they want. Even if what you said is true, the experience is absolutely doomed, because its a shitty UX
It's also just really silly to have conversations like:
"I can't stand seeing Elon on my feed!"
"Have you blocked him?"
"No"