mleku on Nostr: i think something that would help maybe with this, is where you have some short list ...

i think something that would help maybe with this, is where you have some short list of people you want to see everything, your "follows"

everyone else, you have two reaction buttons, one implies negative, the other positive, but you can put an emoji on both without any confusion about the value of it (so, it would be a tag along with the emoji in content)

as a user you react to gets more positive, they move into your web in proportion with your other reactions (otherwise how are you gonna evaluate the relative importance) over time, so people who you react positively to often, get more often selected to be visible to you, and become de-facto follows, without requiring any specific choice of that option

eventually you can even eliminate the explicit follow list and evaluate how to populate a person's feed based on the top 50% positively reacted, and whenever there is a marginal state (the lower 25% of your most positive responses) if there is a more preferred option it gets shown instead of a less preferred option

this would relate to the idea of how much you want to actually engage with, so there would be a "show me more" button that alters this threshold and thus will select more in total than if your demand for stimulation was lower