with Amethyst and listr.lol you can create a "favourites" list which you can then choose as your home feed in Amethyst. You can always switch back to "all follows" home feed.
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I LOVE using follow lists with Amethyst for this use case. However I believe the specific question was about receiving a notification. This feature in Amethyst doesn't sent you a notification when someone on one of those follow lists posts a new note.