Trying something inspired by idea of unfollowing everybody and rebuilding deliberately.
Mine is less extreme. I unfollowed almost all *except* current mutuals. So almost everybody in this ‘ground state’ is a mutual. Went from ~3k to ~770. Will build back slowly.
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I was following a shit ton of “fun” and “random stimulation” accounts as well as too many journalists, news orgs, defunct product accounts, CEOs, blockchain chatterati etc.
This is mainly an experiment to see if “mutual” is a better filter than “topic-based curation”
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i do this about every 2-3 months or so, highly recommend. I think of it as getting to know my mutuals better / prioritizing mutuals over people who don't know me
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who went to the top of your list? who should i be following?
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I don’t know what ‘top’ means. It’s just mutuals left behind.
@ValdisKrebs did something like this while back with heavy use of lists - he phrased it in forms of signal and noise. thenetworkthinkers.com/2016/01/signal and I think that may be a useful lens ala this metaphor (but expanded to account for more types of cells)
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Neurons that fire together, wire together. Accounts that RT together, follow each other?
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Interesting! I have found that following only people you mutually know doesn’t improve the signal to noise ratio, but maybe it helps in building more community 🧐?
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