My idea of an alternative news feed is to keep following inspiring people you encounter, like a professor you have in university, or the no-name author of a movie. Following should be agnostic of a social network platform, just to keep track of all their public feeds. That way you would build up your personal network of people, that keeps growing and producing more value.

Whats your thoughts on that?

Maybe we can keep this on a conceptual level, and avoid technical problems of networks in general (like power laws and spaming), implementation details or reward mechanisms.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16763604 [2] https://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/apr/12/news-is-bad-rolf-dobelli