With h_chr + SocialFixer + uBlock Origin (but, note, FB have been messing with their HTML in ways that currently break SocialFixer's sponsored-post detection filters, so this is a bit worse than usual) the top 50 items in my feed are:
34 posts from friends, 9 of which are vapid feel-good glurge (I have a couple of friends who post, or rather share, a lot of this)
1 birthday message from one friend to another
5 posts in groups I belong to
10 sponsored posts, of which 8 are completely 100% uninteresting to me and two are only 90% uninteresting (e.g., one of them is an ad for a play I might conceivably be interested in seeing, if I lived anywhere near the place it's running).
The SNR is definitely worse than "90%+ friends" but also much better than "98% suggested pages and barely any friends".
(I am using "friends" in the Facebook sense, but I am fairly discriminating about this and all my Facebook "friends" are people I have actually met in the physical world and would enjoy spending some time with.)
34 posts from friends, 9 of which are vapid feel-good glurge (I have a couple of friends who post, or rather share, a lot of this)
1 birthday message from one friend to another
5 posts in groups I belong to
10 sponsored posts, of which 8 are completely 100% uninteresting to me and two are only 90% uninteresting (e.g., one of them is an ad for a play I might conceivably be interested in seeing, if I lived anywhere near the place it's running).
The SNR is definitely worse than "90%+ friends" but also much better than "98% suggested pages and barely any friends".
(I am using "friends" in the Facebook sense, but I am fairly discriminating about this and all my Facebook "friends" are people I have actually met in the physical world and would enjoy spending some time with.)