this is an old-style willow sentiment that i don’t totally feel nowadays but: i don’t like recency all that much, i like slow pace of lingering interactions, necroposts are cool and one of the things i found disappointing is that all these repos had vast accumulations of posts and no one interacted

with them unless they were a few hours old. not to say i have a good way of surfacing those things, and interacting with old things requires a different engagement style, but the recency and demand for constant new attention was a little strange and uncomfortable to me.

when i found an account i hadn’t seen before and was interested in, i liked going back through their things.

part of the reason i’m appreciating the separation of my online presence right now is that i have to intentionally seek out interaction, and it’s more periodic, rather than passive and constant. it’s more like replying to an email instead of replying to a text message