Similarly, if I have friends who are all over the world and I log in once a day, do I want to have to scroll through 300 posts before I see how my friends in Japan are doing?
No! I want to see how they are doing as part of my experience too!
The other day I logged on and there were 800 unread messages and I had only been logged out for order hours.
Understand: wanting timelines to be smarter than reverse chron is not "wanting corporate control over what I see."
It's _common_.