I'm pretty much just following npubs and using DVM's, but you should checkout yakihonne, you can select different interests, and their a little bit more news focused.
How do you use DVMs and who are you following? I am using yakihonne, when selecting the “News” filter there is a lot of noise.
Amethyst has the smoothest DVM experience imo. I'm following 748 freaks. The more follows you have the better your feed, especially if you select a wide variety ie devs/artists /memers/ podconf/frens/daily active users who post interesting content. Your feed would look drastically different if you doubled your following, and you can look at different topics/find interesting folk by searching hashtags as well.