homepage defaults to Subscribed instead of all, or at least a way to set that as the default

It should be in your settings page. It’s just labeled “Type” and is between Theme and Sort type.

Not really. If you see a stranger kicking a vending machine, there’s a (well-documented!) bias to think “that much be a violent and angry person” instead of “that person is having such a bad day they’re kicking vending machines now.”

You could go dig all the way into material and social situations that caused a person to yada yada yada, but that’s way deeper in.

For the debate bros in the crowd, the error RoomAndBored is pointing out is an example of the fundamental attribution error, also known as correspondence bias.

ah the good old days, where instead of recommendation algorithms you had some guy deliberately adding more popular artists’ names to songs so you’d accidentally download them and broaden your horizons a bit

shoutouts to whoever mislabeled Chylinska as Rammstein in 2001 btw, you made me like 5% cooler