Noticing a lot of weekend chatter about helping new people onboard and I literally cannot stress the enough - the experience changes entirely once you follow about 200 people.
Then your home timeline fills up, and you find more people to follow/weed out some of the randos you followed at first.
This place is NOT going to get "busier" if you do not follow people; there are so many posts going on that you are not seeing.
Use "Federated" and "Local" find ppl; follow liberally. It works.
@toddzim33 yeah; I mean I think it kinda helps that it's hard to notice. Even though it's vain and stupid, I definitely notice when someone unfollows me on social media and then you start wondering why, etc.
I doubt this is WHY they did it, but not constantly seeing my own follower count means I don't even think about it; which in turn means I don't notice when someone leaves or care.
The impersonality of it weirdly encourages you to experiment more, and curate after. I kinda like it.
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