If you don't like what your friends post to Facebook then you should reconsider if you want to be friends with them, or if you should begin using the tools FB already provides to control the content in your feed.
Many people use facebook as just another way to communicate with friends, either through messages, wall posts, or event invites. I don't really care if they post uninteresting stuff to their own wall. Actually, it'd be rather sad if I reevaluated my friendships just based on that.
>"Actually, it'd be rather sad if I reevaluated my friendships just based on that."
This is unfair, you responded to someone who was saying "If you want a higher quality stream, then curate more aggressively using the tools available to you"
And I feel like you ignored the meat of his post to make a cheap shot on the idea of "losing friends over memes". That wasn't his point, and I think you knew that. The tools he mentions allow you to control what appears in your feed without unfriending.
> you should reconsider if you want to be friends with them, OR if you should begin using the tools FB already provides
So if we get technical about it, he presents two options: Curate more aggressively or reconsider whether you want to be friends with them. Maybe he meant that tongue-in-cheek, but at least when I first read it it sounded like he said you should either use facebook's tools or rethink your actual friendship with that person.
Culling my friends still doesn't save me from seeing advertisements/promoted posts from services not even associated with them, and they shouldn't have to worry about liking something because it's going to spam me.
or if you should begin using the tools FB already provides to control the content in your feed.
Is this sufficient? What I want in my feed is likely very different then what I'd want on my phone's homescreen. Now you're getting into google circles territory and I'm not sure that level of curation really works well.
The original point is still valid if its "There's a lot of crap in my feed that I'm okay with that I won't want on my phone's homescreen".
Most likely the answer here is a mix of your curation (i.e. don't ever show me content from this person that overshares) and Facebook's existing systems that learn, based on what you interact with intentionally and attentionally, what content available from all your friends will be the most interesting to serve to you at this exact moment.
Also, the Cover Feed assumes that all photos are portraits or landscapes. That's a dangerous assumption because not all content in s typical photo can fit into a 16:9 rectangle without causing inconsistencies (including the aforementioned square memes)
