i often wish my friends were more willing to mute or block people, and wondering if part of the issue is not having a clear conceptual metaphor for what you’re doing when you do it. the phrase i’ve been saying to myself when i feel like muting or blocking is “get out of my house”
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i am maybe unusual in regarding long-time following as an intimate thing to do. i often experience other people’s tweets as happening inside me in some sense; they sort of enter my head the same way my own thoughts do. this is a lot of power to give someone! twitter.com/parafactual/st…
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solid point:
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What bothers me is the repeated bad interactions due to the lack of shared info
Eg recently mutuals were getting DMs from a hater, just nakedly insulting people, & I totally could have told them this dude sucked bc I blocked months ago
And the guy’s followed by like 20 of them twitter.com/QiaochuYuan/st…
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"letting people make you uncomfortable is not a virtue"
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if you feel like it would be a relief to not see someone's tweets again, I encourage you to mute or block them with no further reason needed.
letting people make you uncomfortable is not a virtue
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I think this is (unsurprisingly) also not a bad way to think when you're replying: treat it as though you're in their house.
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I usually ignore after 1-2 instances of bad faith engagement, insults, mockery, etc. Don't want that shit in my mentions.
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Having grown up watching “Martin,” one thing that stood out to me, the pride he took in kicking anyone and everyone out of his apartment at any time for any reason just because he could. Clear boundaries.
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and i were talking about this last night!
your replies are a garden u wanna cultivate. asking people to behave is like spraying a light pesticide. if the person responds poorly, it's because they're not supposed to be in the garden.
it's okay to tend to your garden
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