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· Mar 22, 2021

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been thinking about this. feels like a lack of shared purpose. i've been trying to be a little more strategic but mostly not talking about it here

there are lots of tweets i’ve wanted to criticize and have refrained from doing so bc the criticisms assume the OP shares some of my goals. maybe they don’t, who knows? so i’ve been unfollowing and muting more instead

as for my own tweets, most of the stuff on my current edge is stuff i’m not posting here anymore. feels too half-baked and boringly detailed and high-context. had some weird experiences trying to do that earlier this year and sort of gave up on it and decided to be more private

it was fun when i felt like at least some of us were really bought into the shared goal of “explore feelings / trauma / etc together” publicly, and there’s still some of that going on but idk feels like i’ve also been seeing more pushback. feels less safe now :/

i don’t think pushback is bad exactly, but like... i’m increasingly aware of the ways in which different people in different situations need to hear different things bc they have different bottlenecks, and twitter is poorly suited to dealing with this :/

just feels like there’s too many competing needs flying around on public twitter. smaller online venues currently feel to me like the way to go to handle this but there’s a really unfortunate discoverability problem (the main good thing about doing this stuff publicly). idk!

8:06 AM · Mar 22, 2021Twitter for iPad

this is all before even getting into the fact that i think everyone is in a worse mood bc of the 1-year lockdown wall :///

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Do you think this is sub-Twitter network specific to your mutuals, or Twitter wide?

the last bit about lockdown seems pretty pervasive to me. i’ve been collecting viral tweets about it here:

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· Feb 11, 2021

when you see a take on the TL these days, any take whatsoever, remember that that take is being generated by someone who is slowly losing their mind from lockdown

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I think this is the main reason I stopped tbh I got really down in January and it felt like the shared mood is too fragile for me to dump more negativity and fragility into it

void angel

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