I like how, by means of not reading the federated timeline, I have no idea what the current "discourse" is about and only know that it exists by seeing people complaining about it and/or offering support to people overwhelmed by it

@Felthry I've taken to calling this phenomenon "backscatter".

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@starkatt @Felthry Backscatter's a real good term for that. I used to think of it as, say, social archaeology.

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