It is. When you first start on Medium, the algorithm send you the most popular, which tends to be self help vomit because everybody falls for clickbait some.

People use it because it works, right?

Anyway, it also tailors toward what you search for and then more and more what you read and engage with.

So over time, you have more input in how the algorithm finds things for you.

Contrary to what the lady said avovez. Find that every time they announce xhanges to the algorithm, I start getting more clickbait garbage for a while. I always groan when they shake things up because of it, lol.

You can speed up that tailoring process some by getting in the habit of marking those articles with "show me less of this" every time you accidentally click on a clickbait or fluff article. Look for the little circled dash below the title in the main feed.