then (and this is important) I subscribe to a number of cool other feeds, like 'Popular with Friends', 'For You', 'Dev Trending', 'Web Developers', 'Web Development Trending', 'Quiet Posters', etc. even if I don't visit them, they get 'surfaced' in my Following feed
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