>"Actually, it'd be rather sad if I reevaluated my friendships just based on that."

This is unfair, you responded to someone who was saying "If you want a higher quality stream, then curate more aggressively using the tools available to you"

And I feel like you ignored the meat of his post to make a cheap shot on the idea of "losing friends over memes". That wasn't his point, and I think you knew that. The tools he mentions allow you to control what appears in your feed without unfriending.