I ditched Twitter about 3 months ago but now find myself missing the regular contact I had with some of my followers. Unfortunely, even utilizing Twitter's tools to manage the content of my feed (muted words, retweets off) my feed is still too "schizophrenic".

I've moved away from a "one feed" model of social media. I might still visit Twitter, or read someone's tweets but I'm not looking to have them "pushed" to me in one large messy feed.

Humor, News, Hobbies, Friends etc. are now all siloed to allow me to engage with them based on my mood & needs.

IMHO, "the feed" is the problem.