Of late I have noticed the quality of my Steem feed going down quite substantially. Over time the number of people I follow (individuals and curation groups) has gone up substantially, but it has come at the cost of my feed turning into a raging dumpster fire.
Some of the crap I have seen in my feed was alarming and for some reason, I have been seeing quite a few posts critical of vaccinations. I am 100% FOR vaccinations, I think they should be mandatory and anyone who claims to know more than decades of medical research and reduction in illnesses and diseases thanks to vaccinations I do not want to follow or encourage.
I started out following close to 200 people and now I am only following 56 people. It's not that everyone was publishing bad content, some had outright quit Steem or haven't blogged in months. I think it's healthy to do a cleanup every so often, I'm sure I'll end up following newer accounts and repeating the process in a couple of months.
I made sure I unfollowed accounts abusing the trending page or just publishing absolute rubbish, no holds barred. The only large account I really follow now is @berniesanders because I love his take no prisoners approach towards Steem and his efforts to call out and punish abuse on the platform if anyone knows of any other Steem users doing the same please leave a comment below so I can follow them.
@themarkymark
@berniesanders you were flagged by a worthless gang of trolls, so, I gave you an upvote to counteract it! Enjoy!!
This is how I run my Twitter account, I keep the bare minimum amount of people. Regardless if I like someone, if their content is not interesting, it becomes noise. With a lot of things, I try to reduce the noise so I can process a lot more information on a daily basis.
Precisely. My Twitter account is sadly still in a state of disarray, but since discovering Steem at the beginning of 2018, I haven't really been Tweeting as much and focusing my energy on blogging here. I really should go and do a cleanup over there, but I am going to need a bigger scrubbing brush and a lot of bleach, haha.
Definitely. It gets to the point where it's impossible without the assistance of a bot or something to truly see every post showing in your feed when you eclipse a certain number of followers. Cognitively it's just not possible, so it makes sense to keep it small.
I find I browse through the tags from time-to-time manually instead of my feed looking for content I wouldn't usually see from authors I would never have thought of following. I've been flirting with some SteemSQL queries of late to find long-form content from reputable authors that I might make the norm for finding new content.
Also gave you a follow thanks @berniesanders
What I don't get is the odd goose that gets upset when you un-follow them. Like it's a personal attack. shrug
People are fickle, just laugh and move on. Everyone has their quirks.
It’s healthy to do a cull from time to time. I’m about due for another. :)
Back when I also played around on Twitter and You tube I did the same thing - purge purge purge!!!! felt damn good too.
I got the boot too. Sorry that I can't deliver the content you find value in. It is hard to keep up finding content for Curie to upvote, and doing service to one's blog. Both require a lot of input, and with real life too to deal with, I can't help much. I keep following you. I enjoy your blog. Cheers!
I did the same last month and curtail the numbers of accounts whom I were following. I unfollowed more than 250 accounts. Now, I am following only 250 around.
I should do the same .. I likely follow allot of dead accounts.