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1. Michael Smith (spinda@tiny.tilde.website)'s status on Monday, 16-Oct-2017 19:53:34 EDT Michael Smith

   @datagrok I've felt this tension in many forms, between Twitter, Mastodon, RSS feeds, or IRC channels. I'll find, say, a person posting things that interest me, or who created something I like, and subscribe to them. Then their posting rate overwhelms my rate of information intake, degrading my experience, but I feel bad about unsubscribing.

   1. Michael Smith (spinda@tiny.tilde.website)'s status on Monday, 16-Oct-2017 20:01:39 EDT Michael Smith

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      @datagrok An "algorithmic timeline" like Twitter is pushing might help filter the firehose a bit, but I can't trust some piece of software to determine what's worth reading for me, so the anxiety of "missing out" would still be there. The most effective way to tackle this I've found is to just let go and disconnect from sources of input that aren't good for me. I've never ended up regretting an aggressive pruning of my following list.

      1. Koz Ross (koz@quitter.se)'s status on Monday, 16-Oct-2017 20:31:07 EDT Koz Ross

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         @spinda @datagrok I generally go by signal-to-noise ratio. If that's too low, even if there are gems, they're not worth the time cost.