[sossles]

This is an inevitable side effect of people's tendencies to over-subscribe to information sources. Once it's normal to try and follow 200+ people on Twitter, you're in need of an algorithm to prioritise content, and from there it's an easy side-step to inserting other content you haven't asked for.

Unfortunately even when you don't follow 200 people on Twitter, you're still subject to the same design principles.

[lonk11]

Manual subscription management is a problem. The current choices are: you either have to manually control everything or surrender control to an opaque algorithm.

I am building https://linklonk.com to explore a middle ground - you upvote/downvote content as a way to tell a transparent algorithm who you want to get more/less content from.

When you upvote a post/link, LinkLonk connects you stronger to other users that upvoted it and prioritizes other content they upvoted for you.

When you downvote something - your connections to those who upvoted that become weaker, and their other upvotes don't have much weight for you.

This makes it much more scalable - the algorithm keeps track of your connections to everyone else. You could be connected to hundreds of users and RSS feeds on LinkLonk, without having to explicitly subscribe to them. But you still have control - you express it every time when you decide whether to upvote or downvote the content you just read (or do nothing).

You end up connected the strongest to sources that have the highest signal-to-noise ratio for you. You see content from those who have proven to be good curators of content, which I think is a good feedback loop.

[GhettoComputers]

You can do lists or read twitter as an RSS. I simply don't use twitter much since its mostly garbage. I won't be subject to fix social media, if it is a burden to use its not going to be used. Don't miss the headache of organizing quailty for my feeds when its more work to make it enjoyable for a few minutes.