I've got a few followers on Twitter lately at random and I just look at their timelines and think... you're not going to be interested in me... why are you following me?
https://twitter.com/Tayruu/status/1208584714254045184

I kind of want to go through followers and softblock a lot of them if they don't seem like they're following out of legitimate interest because I don't like that I have 230-ish people following when maybe 30 of them regularly interact with me.

I realise "regularly interact" is a bit of a weird statement, because some people you just like to see on your timeline even if you don't reply or like everything. That's just a psychological trick the sites expect of you.

But... still...

Social media is just wrong. Remember when we all used Livejournal? People had like, 15 followers each. You didn't have this social obligation to care about thousands of inconsequential people, to allow to have a view and say into your life. You had forums for public space, and journals for privacy amongst friends. IRC could be either or.

There's just a certain "wrongness" to the social structure of social networks. It's not about personal connections, but being a walking, living advertisement. You're broadcasting your life for consumption - if you try to be more personal or social, you risk being thrown to the wolves.