Being highly public + not having alts must be exhausting and strangely limiting in a way the individual might not be able to fully realize (because of the high volume of filtered signal)
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Alts allow you to experience/witness signals you simply cannot get any other way, because everything you witness via realname meatspace is filtered by your identity. People act on their preexisting assumptions re: how they think you’re supposed to be treated, related to
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I don’t have alts. 2 accounts is already my limit. I think I’m a mix of below whatever limit you’re implying and don’t have goals that need alt signals. Twitter itself *is* my alt signal. Don’t need altalt
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🤔 true
I think you internalized some illegibility camo-in-plain-sight skills that I‘ve been learning pretty late
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It’s mainly that I have zero bluecheck Publicly Important Person ambitions. My ambitions are mostly backroom.
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Ah yes. Sometimes I get into a bluecheck headspace + carry myself like a bluecheck without realising that I’m consciously doing it
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I guess a part of me still carries the thought “the world needs a better class of bluecheck + if not me than who” (alongside maybe “all checks are stupid but some are useful”)
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I hereby release you from the responsibility of saving the world

