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Please feel free to tell me to pound sand. I don't need to be here, and "successful YouTubers" is hardly a marginalized group.

But also understand that I *want* to be here. I'm not leveraging this platform to spread my videos, I'm here to offer a way for people to connect with me. And I'm here to have fun.

At this point I need to self-censor a /lot/ to keep it fun. I'll try that for a while, but it's a damn shame I need to do it.

@TechConnectify As someone with a similar number of followers, I’ve been using the same technique I used on Twitter for the ~16 years I was there: carefully managing my follow list, muting people who bother me, and blocking jerks. Overcoming the feeling that I “shouldn’t” do so much muting/blocking (and overcoming the urge to reply to people I should really be muting or blocking) was key to my Twitter happiness. Oh, and I use a good third-party client app, of course: Twitterrific then, Ivory now

@siracusa This is something I'm just going to disagree with then. I never had to engage in much muting or blocking at all on Twitter.

Now I don't think I had the following that you did on Twitter, but it was bigger than the following I have here.

The automated filtering that Twitter did worked very well for me. And maybe some of my experience comes from the fact that I only joined in 2018. It was probably a lot better then than it was in years prior.

But that's missing here.

@TechConnectify Yeah, being on Twitter since 2007 and never using the first-party client definitely gave me a different experience. I built up my defenses and overall system over years and years. Again, worth it for me, but there’s probably no shortcut for it. If I had joined Twitter in 2018, boy, would things have been different for me!

@siracusa I guess what I'm getting at then is that Twitter did have that shortcut by 2018.

I don't think there's a reason that shortcut couldn't exist on this platform other than people generally are averse to any kind of automatic filtering or algorithms