# currently not following anyone in bsky instead just bookmarking accounts of interesting people a way of simply cleaning up one's internet addictions consider a follow no less devoid of meaning than an upvote or a holy 'like' seems the only way it's remotely supposed to symbolize friendliness is ideologically the 'follow' as automatically meaning or implying 'friendly' is only ever the unchallenged official socially correct way to interpret or use it yet clicking on some stupid virtual button or screen icon has nothing to do with true human relationship or genuine mutuality with honest heartfelt interest relevance personal connection or affinity rather than the sense of sharing and togetherness it's plain dumb algorithmic pseudo-interaction to consider the sense in which all such 'friendly follows' on social are entirely synthetic and arbitrary one might as well undergo a 'hype audit' by elf styled 'professional social media analysts' who 'deliver actual strategic value maximizing campaign roi' bleurrgh talk about a baseless house of digital cards thing is if one doesn't like or follow on social why be there - ah now we're finally getting somewhere // republic of bob