First of all this is not a suggestion, this is more of a question asking, has this been asked before

And suggesting improvements to SN is a path to be treaded carefully, the amount of hard work put in by k00b, Scoresby, sox and all the contributors is definitely recognised and appreciated

I'm noticing a lot of AI bots in the comments recentlyI'm noticing a lot of AI bots in the comments recently

What if we had a 'Following' at the top of the territories list, that only shows posts from Stackers you follow with a filtered comment section that shows comments from followed Stackers and hides other comments as the mute function does currently

We have Subscriptions alreadyWe have Subscriptions already

These act as notifications that Stackers you 'follow' have created a post or commented on a post, but It's not a full following only feed

Downzapping the botsDownzapping the bots

What if we didn't need to downzap these clankers and trolls and make them forever irrelevant by never seeing their content

This is a bit Nostr isn't it?This is a bit Nostr isn't it?

Obviously the following feed is the way Nostr clients operate

Nod to SubscriptionsNod to Subscriptions

Scoresby is one of my favourite Stackers and I obviously subbed him and the sub feature works very well, you could just consume all your SN content by the red notification bell and curate your sub list as your follow list, but the UI/UX isn't the same as the home page

What do Stackers think?What do Stackers think?

• Are you a heavy subscription user?
• Would you want separate 'Following' for posts and comments?
• Or is the Subscription feature enough?

I found one post on this topic from years ago #6880 and I'm sure It's been debated many times since then

As I mentioned before not a criticism or a hard suggestion, just looking down the road at the inevitability of more AI slop appearing in the comments