@juliewebgirl I need to do this but with those that don't reply (like when someone doesn't reply at all even after asking again and saying it's ok either way - when it's just nothing).
So to do the cleaning are you just looking one by one from your settings ?
And if they are interesting do you consider sending a message ? Just everything is not always deliberate and Mastodon type interfaces can be a bit chaotic ? (they might find you again also but for those super-interesting maybe).
Thanks for any tips.
1) They requested to follow me, and I followed back then accepted. (I never accept if it's someone I won't follow back) and at some point, they decided I wasn't for them (I do tend to rant a bit lol) and unfollowed me
2) I found them interesting, followed them but they never followed back
3) I also found a few so far who had blocked me (see above re ranting lol) (which also happened today prompting this)
Sometimes it happens accidentally but I trust we'll find each other again
@freeschool
Having said that, I just checked out your profile and because you requested to follow me. You seem to be looking for answers or discussion so I'll be blunt, my instance has a character limit if 500. I used to love the challenge on Twitter if keeping it under 140 but am honestly glad for the 500 now. I know other instance have different limits. Yours doesn't seem to have one? I get so far reading and then I want to move on to the next...
@freeschool
I like reading articles but not here. Here I want to scroll and get short tidbits. Too long feels like a monologue not a conversation. And yes, I realize I'm tooting a thread here but that's once we've engaged, not just toots in my feed. Long Covid has shortened my patience exponentially, which sucks but I got frustrated & irritated not being able to find the point in your toots. Too much to dig through. So I'm not sure I can follow you, if that makes sense.
Great - Thanks for reply and enjoyed how meaningful is was (cup of tea and fast reading for the rest!)
Great - Thanks for reply and enjoyed the meaningfulness inside it... (cup of tea and fast reading for the rest!)
@juliewebgirl Super stuff. Because...
⭐ you replied
⭐ there is some meaning to it.
Often people have little reply and little meaning, and this is exactly what is lacking and what people want (without the effort lol)
I really enjoy the idea you could follow but skip things fast unless really everything always comes on your screen and bugs your conscious as mine does about caring stuff!
So part of the way forward in almost any sense - mine yours anyone else's - is that we can feel out something more meaningful in the world.
You can stop there - I'll draw a line but there's more below IF you can read fast and with humanity in mind as the overall project in some sense... which I accept isn't for everyone.
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ABOUT BUILDING HUMANITY BETTER ONLINE
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Often there is only us individuals to help build each other - little else to tell us what is right or from a genuine personal perspective. Nobody tells you straight like a stranger either.
It's not some external foreign thing either, like a State to take care of us. They don't.
Anyway now for "Summary of Points" from what you said in reply:
➡️ First is note that you also wrote a lot (which I enjoyed)
A bit of a smile to myself about how people like to write and do write well! (forgive those that write 'too well' but most is a genuine effort)
➡️ when it's THEIR thing it's fine to write 'long' hehe and that could be 'our thing' as #humanity because we're all part of the same whole usually in many ways and we could allow things more often to at least consider 'long' especially if never doing it)
➡️ Skipping stuff is fine!
Skip a lot! When you skip fast, you find fast!
Move to next arrow if you like!
You will find good stuff fast that way - skip to next ➡️
➡️ If life is like 'why bother' then I get that. See #Caturday pictures - that will suit those looking for pure bliss somewhat and those not wanting more than to superficially stay online and don't want actively to considering the real reasons why life if superficial 😃
We make life go around properly (or not)!
➡️ Surely don't follow me if 5 scrolls of my profile are absolutely terrible for you - but if you see I'm genuine and like it troubles your soul in a progressive way then that's different and needs a bit of care only in it's digestion and interaction (yes I write a lot) - a breather yes - but not ignoring
or being "I don't want you to teach me anything because I don't like feeling like I'm lower" - I get it!). A loose distant thing is fine!
➡️ My media page shows my edited pictures curated as a 'best of' gallery that helps see things differently / non-text version
🖼️ https://qoto.org/web/@freeschool/media
MAYBE AFTER pictures go to text from pictures (link at the bottom goes to post text) if relly wanting to know more how it's all #relative to us and usable in yOur life.
➡️ Naturally the computer or text format and interface is not as nice as pictures - I get the 'media gallery' might be the best way to view things at least at first 😉
➡️ I also enjoy the short BUT life is not that kind of self-practice / or journey.
Often why people HATE a lot (and do write long after that lol) is because people do learning the wrong way, and they expect short answers or only 1 answer per question (!) Is it that simple? Easily not.
So that expectation in itself is a problem and traps people to in turn expect themselves to get farther by doing less distance - nooo, short is circular / problematic / cat chasing tale / being chased by same cat / being afraid by own shadow.
It grates the eye to see long but the heart to feel understood or see progress in people. Sounds like I need you to feel good or have some condition but this is normal 'Ubuntu' (I am because you are / because of you I exist more)
⭕ Hard to see vicious circles but they are common, and even build up tension and lack of capacity which is why I'm defining it here (both for you / me / others)
⭕ Your life (and the children's lives) depend on it. (this is not to get you to follow or as ultimatum - it's just everyone effects everyone else although they don't want to claim credit for doing less of this stuff and then seeing more bad in the world (don't mean you exactly). If physical world is being cut off more and less spaces to talk, this is also why things can get a bit longer here online since there is no real community in mostly places and all financially born / dying without meaning keeping them alive.
➡️ Even with short time it's ⭐the way⭐ people spend it and how much care - so you wrote very nicely -
➡️ Writing more in return I can see as bad or 'oh God will it be like this every time' but just a one time thing now... and yes not to kill each other if we knew some of this! If you knew all, then definitely skip me and congrats for ace-ing it all already!
➡️ Some people will always blame that there's never enough. But it's the way they do things or don't do them properly and measured with right people.
➡️ If people are constantly ditching people instead of investing ⏱️ - what do you get?
Easy to say #Trump #Musk type of solutions - but other people are hardly going to grow 🟠 oranges for each as fruit or wisdom that way! And probably just throw each other tomatoes instead going nowhere arguing over orange buffoons!
➡️ THERE IS A TON OF TIME IN LIFE ! Investing it helps everyone /everything.
Otherwise we see what we get! (lemons 🍋 🍋 🍋 and not even #lemonade at the end!)
FINALLY
➡️ Clearly we all need help in everything...
➡️ Together we can do it.
I trust you know best after this and it's clearer. Come back soon etc...
I don't plan to write more but make it clear in 1 sense what we're doing or not.
You value yourself
and all this also as part of yourself going forward hopefully!
Keep the fire alive
🎇 💖
@juliewebgirl
And the other answers:
➡️ yes this instance has unlimited text limit ( 65230 chars) and the CW is used to make things shorter / optional.
➡️ most of my toots are about unfairness - understanding it and then what to do about it
(in short it's therapy or circle here of being together online now that the "in-person" life is too conditional and too unhealthy / censored outside).
What can help solve things / everything are strangers and then optionally to make friends.
➡️ I do get it can be all too much - even answering this in one day - but checking hashtags in posts and skipping fast hopefully gets us there surely...
#symbiosis of sorts
@freeschool
Yeah I just look at my "following" and if they don't follow me, I just close my eyes (figure out speech lol) and click unfollow. I kept some bots like the one that shows the color of the sky in Seattle every day and maybe if they caught my eye as something I follow and totally understand that I'm not going to be followed back like a celeb. I think there are 2 ways this inequality has happened...