Hi Srujan,

you seem to use the word “interesting” the same way you probably use the word “fuel” for a machine, whether physical fuel like “gas for a car”, organic fuel like “nutrients for the liver” or an algorithmic fuel like “clean data for this Bayesian tree model”. Nothing wrong with needing food for our metabolisms, but treating Medium.com like a platform that should feed you, and not others, is obviously selfish, counterproductive individually and socially.

We need more than “interesting content” the same way we need more than “food in the belly” to feel human, satisfied, happy, well, etc.

The characteristics you do not care about, “male, female, organization, AI bot etc” are exactly what matters to me when I look for something beyond what I need, when I look to meet those in society that live around me and do not look, think, smell, write, read, like me. It seems obvious to me I want that diversity, and I am surprised when I hear those like you who want to see only what they deem interesting. It seems to me you want Medium to be like a nanny or an editor, or your personal AI filter, who curate the content of others to make it palatable to you. Google does that, by restricting and filtering results based on what you want to see, and you could, especially as a techie, have Google give you an edited version of Medium’s content. Why should Medium do that? I expect it to give me a chance to read from those that do not fit my filters, mostly because I feel it is more fair for me, and probably others, that I know the real diversity in my life, as opposed to the view of reality tailored strictly to my survival, pleasure and ability to pay money.