Categorizing followed accounts to create custom feeds
This is a feature request, not an issue.
Once you follow many accounts (and I read in other issues the number can get really high), things can be difficult to follow, and quite messy. Some other social networks I won't mention address this with an algorithm. I would rather propose an option to categorize the accounts we follow, and have then the option to have feeds showing only these categories. In a client taking advantage of the feature, that would translate in some feeds showing only a subset of the followed accounts matching the category (or categories), or multiple columns each showing a defined category.
For example, I would create a category "News" and put in the accounts of the news organizations I follow. A category for "[politic topic] activist", a category for "artists", "friends", etc.
Of course such a feature could be completely handled client side, but the benefit of server side is to be able to switch client without losing all the sorting done on maybe hundreds of accounts.