Of late I have noticed the quality of my Steem feed going down quite substantially. Over time the number of people I follow (individuals and curation groups) has gone up substantially, but it has come at the cost of my feed turning into a raging dumpster fire.
Some of the crap I have seen in my feed was alarming and for some reason, I have been seeing quite a few posts critical of vaccinations. I am 100% FOR vaccinations, I think they should be mandatory and anyone who claims to know more than decades of medical research and reduction in illnesses and diseases thanks to vaccinations I do not want to follow or encourage.
I started out following close to 200 people and now I am only following 56 people. It's not that everyone was publishing bad content, some had outright quit Steem or haven't blogged in months. I think it's healthy to do a cleanup every so often, I'm sure I'll end up following newer accounts and repeating the process in a couple of months.
I made sure I unfollowed accounts abusing the trending page or just publishing absolute rubbish, no holds barred. The only large account I really follow now is 