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A few days back I stumbled across a Bsky "quiet posters" feed option. I thought I lost it, but it turns out I was just seeing an unexpected post from an account I don't follow, that someone I DO follow had responded to. So the feed was basically promoting my follow's response, in its context. I can live with that. What "quiet posters" does for me, is algorithmically filter out a prolific firehose of reposts from a few local political influencer-types, who maybe I do want to follow in principle, but don't want drowning out the more personally meaningful posts of overall less prolific real-people-type individuals.

The "quiet posters" filter methodology isn't immediately intuitive. I think a thing social media should do, that would be more immediately intuitive, is roll up a summary block when a particular poster has multiple posts in recent history. That way they take up feed space in proportion to them being just one of however many accounts you follow, instead of proportional to how frequently they post relative to the other accounts you follow.