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Minors dni. If you're a minor and you're seeing this just don't explore my blog ok
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robotgirls,,,,,,,
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One thing I love about this webbed site is that unfollowing isn’t a bad thing. I can like, unfollow someone because their posts aren’t a vibe at the time, then a few days later see their posts shared again or on a tag I like and now they are a vibe and I re follow and no harm was done, no one gets mad, it’s not taken personally if it’s even noticed.
I’d like us to hold onto that culture.
back when I was newer and would follow all the good, insightful posters I came across, I ran into a problem of that leading to an overwhelming amount of discourse and meta-talk and, yes, drama, in my feed. it dominated the length of my feed and was tiring to even scroll past when I wasn't in the mood for it -- even if art and specific interest posts were more frequent. largely because those posts would be long and shared often when the discourse spiked.
it didn't feel like I was doing anything "wrong," but using the site made me anxious, and I thought it was the site itself. then I realized that "following all the best posters" is not automatically a good way to do things, which felt counterintuitive at the time. so I unfollowed several of them, not because they are anything but good, insightful posters -- but because a feed is more than the sum of its parts.
so the way I think about it now is that following or unfollowing someone is not really about them specifically (not always at least!), but about how that cultivates my existing feed.
I've since refollowed some of the people I unfollowed, now that I've been on the site enough to follow a lot more accounts that are heavy in art, games, queer talk, special interest and have figured out which tags to muffle to shape my feed better.
im baffled how this isn't already the norm for everyone 😭
It is counterintuitive because it requires sometimes seeing a poster that makes you go "wow this poster is good and has cool thoughts to share" and...not following them! Which doesn't seem natural to do.
Also it's very easy to blame any vague discontentment with your feed on "the site's vibes." Like, "I'm following good posters and don't like reading my feed, I guess the vibe's off!" That will cause you not to address a problem with your own habits.
Tbh doing all of that gave me an appreciation for how much of a "skill curve" social media has. It feels like the sort of thing people can be instantly "okay at doing" by simply using common sense, but there are a lot of traps lol.
