(2/2) I start off by checking in manually every so often, and if I find myself checking frequently enough (and don’t have any particular desire to save their posts for when I feel like reading them specifically), I eventually figure I might as well just follow them. Your process was a little bit accelerated because I responded to your post asking for new people to talk to, which prompted the same “well, if I’m going to do that, I’ve clearly reached the point where I should follow them” reaction.
Interesting, and good to know.
What first brought this blog to your notice?
Your interactions with other rationalist-sphere people that I already followed. Probably Alison was the plurality of it, but she was definitely not the only contributor.
Ok.
(That was what I assumed, but it doesn’t have good implications for future expansion unless I’ve already hit a critical mass)
Why does it have bad implications? Is the implication that pretty much everyone who was going to encounter your posts already has?
If so, bear in mind that not all blogs are firmly associated with a single community. I count about half a dozen recognisable blogospheres represented among my <150 followers. I’ve definitely ended up introducing things and people to spheres that wouldn’t have encountered them otherwise, even when I wasn’t intentionally trying to spread the word. I doubt I’m the only one, either.
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