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🐥 I am not embroiled in any legal battle
🐦 other than battles that are legal 🎮
I speak to the universe and it speaks back, in it's own way.
mastodon
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I live on the northeast coast of the US.
'non-functional programmer'. 'far left'.
conceptual midwife.
https://cohost.org/NireBryce/post/4929459-here-s-my-five-minut
If you can see the "show contact info" dropdown below, I follow you. If you want me to, ask and I'll think about it.
not showing follow numbers is cool but I'm really missing finding new likeminded people by crawling people's following feeds
maybe a compromise of having either a spotlight section or the option to hide yourself from others public follows? and i guess a way to hide your own follows for some people from public for preventing certain types of metadata leaks (outing onesself, etc)
one thing that was suggested along these lines by someone yesterday (might've even been you! I've read a lot of things over the past day and it's hard to put them all to names) was being able to put tags in your profile, and find users that way -- do you think this would address any of the use case?
wasn't me, but wouldn't be a problem if it was.
tags are cool, but follows are curated by the person, but in a low-friction way. I don't know it's viable and I don't know if it's non-toxic, its just an experience thats palpably missing compared to masto/twitter.
it's completely unviable once someone follows a lot of people though. Which is why it doesn't really work on twitter.
but the biggest use for it is bootstrapping your personal social network after moving services, sorta reducing the hold network effect has.
