Twitter account protection, 3 weeks later

Last month I protected my #Twitter account (see friendica.mrpetovan.com/displa…).

Since then, I haven't engaged in any stressful public wit contest on hot-button issues, mostly because I physically couldn't on Twitter, and the #Fediverse is a friendlier place for me because there's less hate-quote (sharing content one disagrees with along with a criticism of it).

On the other hand, I realized I cut a couple of people I was meaningfully interacting with on Twitter from myself because they weren't following me. This made me realize that I probably was cut off from protected accounts who follow me because I don't follow back. So I went through my protected follower list and followed them back.

So, overall protecting my account has been a marginally good thing because my online feuds were negatively affecting my sleep, but it came at the cost of a few online relationships with people I wouldn't dare to ask to follow me back even if I had another way of contacting them. friendica.mrpetovan.com/displa…