So yeah, I sorta followed, like 800 ppl in a few weeks. Then, every time I saw a #followFriday I thought pfft I need a #whoDahFukAmIFollowing day. Or it turns out, a week.
I've been trying something.
Turned the reblog off on a bunch of accounts. Took me 4 days, but it also meant hundreds of profiles I stopped and looked at as I changed a setting, a nice refresher.
It's a whole different vibe, just catching the voices of the people I follow.
Before I had a firehose of good content, but it was pretty passive.
Now I catch parts of conversations I click through and follow. Read more of people's connected thought-threads (or rants), go down weird rabbit holes of clicks as I explore a topic or a person.
And it is helping me get to know the people I have followed a lot better.
I'm not saying it is the best and only way to do #mastodon but it is super neat to be able to make all these adjustments.
I can turn off the reblogs to just hear the voices of my tooters. I can turn on some rebloggers on topics I am into. I can follow or unfollow people as my interests and focus change. I can sit on a hashtag to find more peeps on a topic my feed is sparse on.
I love being able to control my own experience on here, depending on my priorities.
Valerie Roney
•I've been trying something.
Turned the reblog off on a bunch of accounts. Took me 4 days, but it also meant hundreds of profiles I stopped and looked at as I changed a setting, a nice refresher.
But man! Once I did it what a change....
Valerie Roney
•Before I had a firehose of good content, but it was pretty passive.
Now I catch parts of conversations I click through and follow. Read more of people's connected thought-threads (or rants), go down weird rabbit holes of clicks as I explore a topic or a person.
And it is helping me get to know the people I have followed a lot better.
Valerie Roney
•I can turn off the reblogs to just hear the voices of my tooters. I can turn on some rebloggers on topics I am into. I can follow or unfollow people as my interests and focus change. I can sit on a hashtag to find more peeps on a topic my feed is sparse on.
I love being able to control my own experience on here, depending on my priorities.