The part about “pinging people about things they are at least somewhat interested in” sounds kinda good. Problem is, the system is intentionally designed to not distinguish between important things and trivialities. You subscribe because you don’t want to miss the important things; then you get flooded by trivialities… which are also kinda interesting, but you probably wouldn’t turn them on every day if they were not mixed up with the important things.
It depends on the author of the “important things” to put them in a separate channel or somehow mark them as more important than the rest. For example, if my former classmates decide that a high-school reunion will only be announced in a specific Facebook group, where they also regularly post other kinds of content… it’s either all or nothing for me. Maybe I could use something like Greasemonkey and write my own filter, but there is a chance I would miss the announcement anyway because someone used a synonym or made a typo.
The part about “pinging people about things they are at least somewhat interested in” sounds kinda good. Problem is, the system is intentionally designed to not distinguish between important things and trivialities. You subscribe because you don’t want to miss the important things; then you get flooded by trivialities… which are also kinda interesting, but you probably wouldn’t turn them on every day if they were not mixed up with the important things.
Are there tools that help with this* (that you use)?
*Getting the benefits of subscription (important things) without the downsides (triviality spam).
It depends on the author of the “important things” to put them in a separate channel or somehow mark them as more important than the rest. For example, if my former classmates decide that a high-school reunion will only be announced in a specific Facebook group, where they also regularly post other kinds of content… it’s either all or nothing for me. Maybe I could use something like Greasemonkey and write my own filter, but there is a chance I would miss the announcement anyway because someone used a synonym or made a typo.