The detoxing from Twitter is a process. It is difficult for some to accept the fact that Twitter isn't a real place. There are millions of fake accounts, bots, and socks using automation to drive derision because it sells, and drives the product(yes you are their product) to provide data they can sell. We are social creatures & thinking you were engaging 20K people is a drug hiding in plain sight. Civility & empathy are dead there, its a corner stone here.
@Jeremiah48204 As it grows there will be groups of real people who will engage on the subjects, like football, but the hate posting Twitter devolved into from anonymity won't grow. Bots won't stoke fights between rivals. I made some great IRL friends from early Twitter. Now we text in a group about our Browns & Buckeyes to avoid all of that. I hope you are finding your way here, it takes some time to figure it out but it's worth it.
Some days I try to add up the wasted hours vetting followers on Twitter. Blocking kept me in that suspicious/judgmental mindset.
Vetting is a rare pursuit in CoSo.
I’m so grateful.
@LnzyHou I have never blocked or muted anyone here. I have seen plenty of posts that I don't agree with but knowing its the opinion of a real person that I can use a real life skill, ignoring it, is sufficient.
@thechriskidd
A good reminder for even the new people that everyone here (-2) is a real live human being that they’re interacting with. ☺️
@thechriskidd Real time engagement during College Football on Twitter was an addiction, but I am out nothing see over there