"Generally, I dislike most people."
LOL, at least your honest, but ya I fully get where you are coming from. People that are trying to game the system by following where they feel the value is + people automating things like voting or vote trades so super annoying on this platform and has got quite out of control for the most part. I personally manually do all my upvoting, and try to only follow people I find intersting or are talking about topics I tend to enjoy, instead of trying to chase the "quick buck" by trying to target whales or people with some influence. I do however have a bunch of follows that I did when I first started that I am constantly trying to drop as a lot of those starting follows are fairly shitty content creators for the most part, but instead of unfollowing everyone and starting from scratch I tend to just try to unfollow a few here and there to weed them off my list over time, so eventually I will have mostly quality content creators on my follow list (minnows, guppies and whales alike).
PS you don't have to upvote this comment as I am honestly not trying to "milk the system" with your vote, plus you dislike most people so ignoring me should be quite easy anyways right? :D