This might get me to browse a little bit more. I have about 1000 friends on Facebook but 60℅ of my feed is news from a small group of publishers (ESPN, The Onion, NYT) and ads.
Wonder how this will affect the political discourse for the elections this year...
Honestly it's pretty hard do discus Facebook, what Facebook does, what it's used for and how people see it, because it's so different from person to person.
you are really lucky
Facebook already has tools to hide posts from certain friends or shares of links to certain publishers (click the disclosure arrow in the top right).
I think the basis for all these "post selection algorithms" that people are continually outraged about is the fact that people are completely unwilling to prune their feeds. Then they get overwhelmed with crap posts and complain about how there's nothing interesting. Then Facebook/Twitter try to figure out what people want to see, and people complain they don't get to see everything.
The thing is I don't want to prune those publishers because if I have to see any non-Friend posts I want to see it from them. But I just wish that real humans were weighted higher than another LeBron story by ESPN.