I’ve been intentionally curating my list of npubs following for a while now..

here’s a couple things I’ve learned in the process, first is less is more.

the reason i say this is because you can be following >1k active npubs and have more incoming content that you value in your timeline than following <1k not so active npubs, nostr isn’t sticky enough for everyone yet so a lot of people leave n so you might have close to half of that following list be npubs that have been inactive for over 5 months. There’s already existing tools that help you automatically unfollow npubs inactive for a certain period of time, I personally choose to manually do this process.

another thing I’ve learned is that the lens from which I’m experiencing nostr is very different than others and that’s due to the lack of easy discoverability. But there’s a solution that’s right in our faces which is the comment or reply section of every note where you can engage and be discovered or where you can observe and discover others. This method requires work for equal reward, your effort dictates the success.

overall being mindful of your daily consumption of content and the quality is the most important thing. these are my thoughts on the matter and by no means a blueprint I’m imposing, your approach is whatever works for you and not the other way around.