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Venkatesh Rao ☀️@vgr
12/22/2022

I’m surprised people care enough to use tools like movetodon to try and recreate their twitter post move. I’m realizing I basically don’t care for 90% of follows. Effectively interchangeable up to Type of Guy. Like I need a few comedians and astrophotography posters in my feed but doesn’t have to be specific o

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Giblfiz@giblfiz
12/22/2022

I really loved your comment about "not expecting to have the same neighbors when you move houses" I thought that summed it up nicely. Wait, does that make me like a stalker for following you here?

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Travis A. Everett@abathur
12/22/2022

Might be retconning motive, but I think I did this to save time and improve my feed. I mostly ~lurk in read/reply mode, so I didn't find twitter much fun until I put effort into my follows. I can of course find replacement WX/OSINT/climatology/etc. follows, but ~porting a fifth helped me get back to having fun.

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Dan Romero@dwr
12/23/2022

New graph is freeing actually

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marlene@marlene
12/23/2022

Im enjoying having less obligations on Farcaster than on twitter when it comes to following certain people.

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Aneesh Sathe@ars
12/23/2022

Lol, i moved here just cause I needed that vgr word salad in my feed!

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12/23/2022

Couldn’t shake me and Norbie

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July@july
12/23/2022

We love you too, Venkatesh.

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Visakan@visakanv
12/25/2022

Tangentially curious about your approach to switching to new devices: do you port everything over? Fresh start? Vaguely feel like you might have mentioned before. (I personally like to Fresh Start it)