1/ I've seen like three or four, "I'm gonna do a mass unfollow," tweets today to "lower noise." Which I absolutely understand and can sympathize with a lot! But, I think more often than not, it ends up creating a stunted and stunting info env for the person doing the culling.
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2/ This is especially important for people who are genuinely interested in discovering and amplifying different ideas, and creating bridges. You miss out on the organic agenda setting of your abstracted alters and with it the opportunity for cross-fertilization!
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3/ And no, lists aren't really a proper substitute. They tend to have the same narrowing effect. Push and pull are very different interactions.
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4/ Or, in gif form, sometimes twitter feels like,pic.twitter.com/8g7LTHYHKc
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5/ which is awful! At the other end you want it to feel like,pic.twitter.com/v1HGJzRMlD
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6/ which is unrealistic fantasy. The Goldilocks zone connectivity is somewhere in between.pic.twitter.com/t1apTRvxip
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Replying to @generativist
I often think about my post volume. I know when i'm writing and in the midst of paper production that my post volume goes up. I guess what i'm saying is that the inverse of this where mass posting can create desires to mass unfollow is also something to maybe / not worry about?
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Replying to @Nick_Lalone @generativist
I think about this all the time. Whenever I'm deep in various writing or editing circles of hell and have a firm deadline, I wax philosophical on here as if I have nothing else to do. Really, I've just got 100 background threads going, waiting to percolate.
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Those moments when people "wax philosophical" under specific constraints/conditions tend to be my favorite tweets/threads to follow. The shared content is often very *shared* by other people, but otherwise hidden/whispered!
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