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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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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