I've arrived at this organisation method on a number of platforms, essentially sorting contacts into a set of priority lists, usually just three: high, medium, low, or A/B/C, whatevs.
I'll often also pin a specific search term of interest for a topic I'm following for the moment, but don't plan on subscribing to.
Most of the time my streams are then the A & B lists plus a topic of interest. Very rarely more than that. If anything vital turns up I'll generally see it one way or another. Every so often (a few times a week/month/year) I'll glance at the lower-priority lists.
I've also made a point of putting highly-voluble sources in their own channel, and then ... ignoring that. This keeps them from dominating other streams, their good stuff (usually infrequent) tends to show up elsewhere through re-shares, and my own QoL is generally improved.
Whenever the experience starts to get too annoying, I start pruning from my high-priority lists. Less is more. No news is good news.
I'll often also pin a specific search term of interest for a topic I'm following for the moment, but don't plan on subscribing to.
Most of the time my streams are then the A & B lists plus a topic of interest. Very rarely more than that. If anything vital turns up I'll generally see it one way or another. Every so often (a few times a week/month/year) I'll glance at the lower-priority lists.
I've also made a point of putting highly-voluble sources in their own channel, and then ... ignoring that. This keeps them from dominating other streams, their good stuff (usually infrequent) tends to show up elsewhere through re-shares, and my own QoL is generally improved.
Whenever the experience starts to get too annoying, I start pruning from my high-priority lists. Less is more. No news is good news.