I started using X just recently. My feed is entirely related to the people I follow and topics I'm interested in. I had a bit of garbage after I joined, but "show less like this" solved it very quickly. The only "garbage" is ads, but they're topical and annoyingly effective at catching my attention.
The people I follow have a very high signal to noise ratio, so maybe that helps.
Everything from incessant discussion of tempests in a teacup to spam, generic financial influencer garbage, political content I find distasteful... hard to sort the wheat from the chaff and they've only become more aggressive about showing you people you don't follow.
That's definitely not my experience, and I wonder if it's because I joined late, after some alg change. The only semi "aggressive" things were posts about war. I clicked "not interested" a few times and haven't seen any since. I actually have zero political content on my feed, beyond AI law stuffs going on in the EU, which I'm interested in. I usually end up following the people I see in my feed, that I'm not following. For the others, I just click "not interested".
It's easily been the most on-point social media experience I've had.
