I spent a few weeks at the end of the year blockenheimering every account I saw doing any one of several forms of shallow loud political/crisis influencer behaviors, along with all their followers, and I have to say, I’m delighted to be missing all of that commentary on the fires.
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I understand completely, it does start to seem counterproductive for some folks that are constantly screaming WOLF!! Never can tell if there might be a real threat.
That said, I try not to mute them all out because I've found as a cis, hetero, white male that I'm pretty clueless to hints and signals of liking looming badness for people at large.
So I generally try to keep the overly noisy ones in my feed for awareness.
It actually validates that I know more than perhaps they do but have a small account…
Following all those big accounts didn’t win us the election, so maybe it’s time to listen to the regulars and not influencers.
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Screaming online resist....is not actually resisting
You know what else I won’t see from these accounts WITHOUT muting certain words?
Tangible beneficial political action independent of whatever the incoming administration does.
That way I’ll still see some posts. If the account manages to sink below the mutes .. blockity block block.
We left MSM behind for this reason.. these people were not followed to fill that happily empty pit.
I spend much of my day on a programming-language forum. Seems like these days I spend more time banning asshats than talking about programming. And when I look back on it, I always think "this block was good. we should do more of that.".