If I was being really honest with myself, I think twitter stopped being healthy for me at around 5000 followers. (This isn't actually me being honest with myself. It's just me noting it abstractly and taking absolutely no action because social validation hits good.)https://twitter.com/jordantcarlson/status/1174000150055964672 …
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Replying to @generativist
I'm trying to figure this out lately. What kinds of effects do you think are most harmful?
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Replying to @kareem_carr
My brain is looped into twitter. Like, I've found myself working on projects and composing tweets about them while doing so. That's gotta be burning up some of my energy, and I'm really not sure the reward is worth it.
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Replying to @generativist @kareem_carr
For political science / sociology / anthropology twitter, abuse is really exhausting, too. I don't know if you noticed but my participation in those circles dropped dramatically after my defense. Even with aggressive blocking, it's really exhausting and I got burnt out on it.
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Replying to @generativist @kareem_carr
Like, boundaries are really healthy! But the higher you go in follower count, the fewer boundaries you have. Or, more accurately, for a possibly bad analogy, surface area of your spherical reach increases with the square of your social radius -- that's a big attack surface.
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Replying to @generativist @kareem_carr
p.s. it may be obvious, but this is why I'm building anti-abuse software (on top of my wife's back right now, since I have no income). blocklists are terrible for engagement, but manually managing blocks/mutes is just so exhausting.
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Replying to @generativist
"For political science / sociology / anthropology twitter, abuse is really exhausting". Is the abuse internal to the community or coming from external sources?
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I think the worst comes from external sources. But, a strong contender is from cross-disciplinary. E.g. someone makes a banal claim that has huge implicit context in their discipline, but people outside of it project theirs.https://twitter.com/generativist/status/1167254858279215104 …
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