Now there's an idea. It would remove at least all semblance of sycophantry, manipulation, circle-jerking, and whale-following and other insincerity.
I have noticed there is a small group of people whose content I check manually by typing in their names anyway, and they are a much smaller group than those I follow. Consider this I must.
Yeap, Even in facebook, this is what I used to do. This is I guess what we call "genuine care".
I actually did this, too. Just to try it out. Your stuff, for instance, I check manually anyway. Let's see how this goes.
It is already how I check most content, but there are a few sets of people I follow whose photos I like for showing me other parts of the world, and I just can't readily remember all their names, so I'll still need a list. Must be age, or their foreign and easily mistyped user names 8-).