Pro Tip: If you want to avoid recreating the twitter site, instead of amassing followers, pick a few like minded folks from your interests out of the feed and just enjoy hanging out.
They'll help you find others and pretty quickly you'l have a nice little comfy group.
While J keeps us safe from trolls, we can also keep ourselves happy by just enjoying our interests and letting the rest roll by in the firehose.
@sfleetucker I usually stick to the people on my followers feed, but once in a while I see a post on the firehose that piques my interest.
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@Oma_Trisha I love the firehose, but generally folks like to build up a set of friends and hang out there. There's a starting problem though of finding those folks to make friends with. :)