Something that I imagine could even be good for Facebook's bottom line, would help mitigate this issue and would improve the user experience immensely: Rebalance how often friends/groups/pages show up in the feed.
Right now, I have some friends who never post, some who post "regularly" (I'll leave that intentionally vague) and others who post 5-10x as much. As a result, my feed is dominated by about half a dozen people and groups. The "mega-posters" are often people who:
- I know only tangentially (they aren't my best friends)
- post generally good/thought-provoking/funny stuff (otherwise I'd just unfollow)
- some (but not all) of them post political stuff
Again, I don't want to unfollow these people, but Facebook gives me no options besides "see it all" or "see none of it" (they took out the "See less of this" button at some point).
If Facebook were to rebalance my feed so that I saw at most 1 post per person per day (or some similar metric), that would have a couple effects:
- I'd scroll through Facebook for longer at a time before getting the "I'm done with this" feeling.
- I'd probably be more likely to see stuff from friends who don't post often
- The political content of my feed would no longer be dominated by news junkies or other outliers (like the person who posts every article from every publication about the impeachment proceedings)
If I didn't have many friends, I could see how this model would cause me to "run out" of content in my feed, and maybe then Facebook could revert to showing everything. But I've accumulated hundreds of friends over more than 10 years on Facebook, so I don't think that would be an issue.