Is it time to stop following Pubs and following only Users?

I can only speak for myself, but I unfollowed all pubs months ago. Most pubs won't unfollow you just because you don't follow them, so you could unfollow the pubs you are following now and the refollow them if you don't like the result.

It's a pub in the sense that it is online 24×7 and has publicly available IP addresses. It doesn't run an automatic invite generator. Technicallly, I think I did a

  $ sbot publish --type about --about $ID --pub

but I'm not sure.