I had stopped tweeting a couple years ago, partly because of the imagined pressure from the growing audience of my followers, partly because I imagined I would be adding to the noise in other's online lives. The first bit is only in my head, and the second bit even more of course. Maybe this move to a different platform might work as a reset for me

@cupe The way I see it; If people don't like what I tweet, they should just unfollow/hide my tweets.

I don't take it personally if someone unfollows me because I do the same to reduce noise.

@daniel_collin yeah, totally. it's connected to some psychological issues for me, where I sometimes take responsibility for other people's (imagined, projected) feelings. I've become a lot better at this, and I feel like I can actually let other people make their own decisions :P

@cupe

I have absolutely no idea what that is like at all and the various people I project in my head also don't know and they do not want me to be acknowledging it, because they like the attention.

It's ... sort of nice to know that I'm not the only one with this problem.

It's also concerning because it's not something I would wish anyone to go through.