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The only thing I've found annoying is the increased number of people with bad faith or incompetent reply game. The kind who show up just to be a dick or to argue with their ramshackle projection of you, or grind axes over their pet issues. But my account is hardly big, so...

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OTOH I am finding I am more and more "myself" as I learn to recognize that X people are fine with listening and X minus Y genuinely interested (& both numbers comfortably large). It feels *less* like a cage when this is a given rather than a potential future scenario.

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Cinder

@Triquetrea

Jun 30, 2020

I don't quite know if we mean the same thing, but... I don't fear honest expression leading to a lack of engagement with my stuff because if anything, it's only made my account more polarizing. I get more random praise and attacks than ever.

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I feel like I recognize what you're describing from when I was less popular and more insecure about my output. Now that gaining 50+ followers in a week is sometimes just a thing that happens, it seems less pressing to worry about. It's less performative, more honest in a way.