Clearing Out My Feeds by Jacky Alciné I'm definitely a very "connected" person. After an hour or so of being up in the, I'm checking the cached notifications that appear when my phone leaves "Do Not Disturb" mode. It's from an array of platforms (YouTube, Patreon, Twitter, Instagram a... mrkapowski.com

@AlanRalph @jeannie to be clear, it’s not me who has followed 2000+ accounts. That said, my old Twitter account reached 1500ish before I went through several severe cutbacks to ~1000, and then closed the account.

It’s fairly easy to accumulate that high a number if you flit between diverse topics, or there’s an important event you’re keeping track of. There’s also the implied need to “follow back,” especially in a niche.

Nowadays I follow ~200, but have far more people added to topic-based lists instead.

@jeannie I used to follow hundreds of feeds, but arrange them by social distance, which keeps overload and fomo at bay . See www.zylstra.org/blog/2019...

@MrKapowski on Twitter I mostly follow topics, not people.

@ton that’s where I’m trying to get myself to, with more and more use of Lists instead of Following. Of course, at some point you have to identify the people to put into those Lists 😅