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Written by Kevin Davy on 2025-01-07 at 23:06

A word to those of you who might be new, or thinking about following me.

Whilst this place obviously runs on algorithms, it doesn't have one to push content onto your timeline. To this end, this place is all about being active. You have to go out and find the content you want. In terms of following the accounts of those whose posts you want to see and also in terms of following the various hashtags that interest you. There are also groups, who solely boost anything posted that tags them, such as @actuallyautistic a group for all autistics and even those who think they might be and not just those officially diagnosed. Follow enough of these things and your timeline can quickly fill, with all that interests you.

However, this is an ongoing process. People come and go. The nature of what they post might vary and no longer interest you. For this reason, unfollowing someone is not a cardinal sin here. Unlike other places, where how many people following you determines your reach, here it really doesn't do anything. Other than affect the quality of your engagement and how many boosts, which do determine reach, and favourites any given post of yours may have.

There are also, always, new people you might want to follow. Or new hashtags that you become aware of that interest you. In fact, over time, you can quite easily end up with an unmanageable timeline. Learning how to use lists, can help you here, separating your various interests into more manageable chunks. You can also hide the boosts of anyone you follow, so that you only see their posts, but not the huge amount of other stuff they might be prone to boosting. But, even with these things, there may come a time when you realise that something has to give and that you can't follow everything. Or, that what you are following is not quite right and that you may need to refresh everything with new follows.

It is, as I said, an ongoing and active process being on here. Both of weeding out the old, or unwanted, and in tending the new. It therefore requires an amount of constant work that puts some people off this place, but which, for most of us, is the beauty of it, once you get the hang of it.

To that end, I therefore do not automatically follow back everyone who follows me. It may be a trick people have learnt in other places and even considered good behaviour because of that. But, as I've explained, it doesn't do much here, where it's all about managing and curating your own timeline. So, if I don't follow back, please don't take offence. I, almost exclusively, wander the #autism spaces and simply like my timeline filled accordingly.

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Written by Hunter Cat on 2025-01-07 at 23:14

@pathfinder @actuallyautistic As I suppose every autistic person does, I am careful of too much information or of repeated or unnecessary information. I am not interested in everything that is published about autism because I really focus on the experience of people close to my age, with a late diagnosis like me.

Mastodon is an interesting experience and it is good to be careful that it does not become for one the same as other networks, a matter of addiction or a box to throw away mental garbage, or worse still, a source of conflicts and unnecessary stress.

Thank you for sharing your personal experience with us!

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Written by Kevin Davy on 2025-01-07 at 23:24

@bughuntercat @actuallyautistic

I must admit, this is what I like about this place too. It's all about choosing who to engage with as much, if not more, than anything else. It's so much more about the talking, than the seeing and certainly very little about the being seen for the sake of it.

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Written by the roamer on 2025-01-07 at 23:16

@pathfinder

You have defined the essence of how this place comes to life. 100%.

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Written by Kevin Davy on 2025-01-07 at 23:25

@the_roamer

Thank you. 😀

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Written by Curious Magpie on 2025-01-08 at 00:01

@pathfinder @actuallyautistic Wise words 🦉

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Written by Kevin Davy on 2025-01-08 at 00:11

@CuriousMagpie @actuallyautistic

😀

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