my pov on being very careful about who you follow on twitter has shifted from “it’s how you have a good time!” more towards “it’s literally how you avoid this website driving you literally crazy”
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I recently unfollowed about 50 accounts, and my timeline already feels fresher
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it's turned out being overly cautious at who I interact with regularly IRL has the positive side-effect of making my TL here significantly less annoying
you can overfit your circle, but having a group that keeps most of this site's worst stuff out is well worth that risk
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if you use 'latest tweets' view, it also slows down the content firehose somewhat, which is a useful circuit breaker if you often get stuck scrolling from inertia
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considering i had a dream based off of a tweet i read last night im inclines to agree
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also may heavily influence the probabilities of who you’ll be close to in the future! I just like fully assume I’ll meet my wife, all future financial investments, new favorite books and papers and such, most of my good friends going forward etc here
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I expect it to be pretty downstream, like doing something here leads me to visit a city where xyz happens. But I’d be surprised if this wasn’t upstream in some form
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