Steve: most of my readers agree with you. I've discovered the utility of the "hide" feature. - Robert Scoble

Also, we should have a way to only view things that have been "liked" or only have gotten two comments or more in the past hour. - Robert Scoble

BarbaraKB answered on Twitter: @steverubel Try FriendFeed w/out Twitter http://pipes.yahoo.com/geekygi... Y! Pipes. - Robert Scoble

Or you can just Hide all Twitters using the hide feature. The functionality is there. - Bwana ☠

I find hiding Twitters to be essential in FriendFeed - I like to read Twitter in Twitter, not in FF. - Mitch Wagner

There are many filters in FriendFeed. I can walk you through it by E-mail. (I would have said DM, but he's not following...) - Louis Gray

Steve, are you using the hide feature in FF? I find far less noise on FF. - Thomas Hawk

@Louis I would be interested in your walkthrough views! - Joe Dawson

My problem with it is that there's no way to group friends or hide content already read, so reading a long stream of posts/content is difficult...could handle the noise if I wasn't digging through trying to filter out comments I've already seen. - Judi Sohn

There is a "Hide" button next to all items, including this one. Using Hide, you can stop seeing any service (like Twitter), you can stop seeing services by individual (like Twitter from Steve Rubel), you can stop seeing Steve Rubel's friends updates, or even change all of the above to only show if they have comments or likes, giving you only the good stuff. Using the Hide option well helps the noise. - Louis Gray

You use FriendFeed Machine don't you? What features from that do you find beneficial? - Joe Dawson

I use the Web interface primarily. FriendFeedMachine has great ways to sort by likes and comments, and sorting "Real Friends" from others. It continues to add some cool features. - Louis Gray

FriendFeed: More useful than Twitter - TranceMist

Could this be the dark side of the network effect? It seems like eventually every network gets too saturated. - Steve Lynch from twhirl

I use friendfeed as the place where I limit my feeds - Mark Ramsey from twhirl

Too much to follow is a feature! I believe that the filter is known as restraint. - Ashton

I want to be able to define my own global FriendFeed filters by topic. I want filters to exclude topics, but I also want to have certain topics prioritized. - Mike Reynolds

Are you able to filter out certain words on FF? PS. What does DM mean? Sorry for being stupid :-( - Kol Tregaskes

agree completely - Friendfeed is great but was becoming a firehose - hiding Friends of Friends helps a LOT - Chris Selland

w/all due respect Robert why do i need someone else to co-sign on a post before I read it. If all of us apply this feature, esp let's say your follower's or Louis Gray's well who is left to "like" or comment? - R. Ferguson

notifications are critical and missing - Jonathan Greene