I understand Digg has this problem and I stopped being a regular user there over two years ago. However, with reddit, it's pretty much a la carte. You subscribe

I understand Digg has this problem and I stopped being a regular user there over two years ago. However, with reddit, it's pretty much a la carte. You subscribe to the subreddits you find interesting and your home page will only show those. I do not subscribe to the most popular subreddits like politics, pics, business etc. and instead subscribe to smaller, niche subreddits like wikipedia, long-text, and space. My wife subscribes to funny, cute, and health subreddits and reddit has material customized for both of us. Yes, it is more work to make sure I get to keep seeing interesting things and it does take some time to find more interesting subreddits to follow but it is much better than seeing typical mainstream news on it all day.