[beej71]

> Some arbitrary process has to reduce the 1,000,000,000 pieces of content produced today to maybe 10 or 100 you can handle.

In my case, I'm the process that does the reduction by subscribing to specific feeds. (Not sure if that's "arbitrary", but I could see it argued either way.)

I admit I miss some content that I would probably like to see. :) But that's just life how it's always been.

As my wife put it, "You don't have enough years in your life to read all the good books, so stop wasting time with bad ones." That's how I think of it. A handful of high-quality, low-volume feeds is great. (But I also follow HN and my curated Lemmy feed, so I get some of the firehose.)

The only "news" I have in my feed is local news. Any interesting national news hits HN or Lemmy.

Again, that's just me. I respect your different usage pattern.