In addition to some important user safety concerns others have already pointed out, I feel reasonably strongly that "starter packs" could have certain negative cultural effects over the long term:
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In addition to some important user safety concerns others have already pointed out, I feel reasonably strongly that "starter packs" could have certain negative cultural effects over the long term:
- people bulk-following bunches of accounts lowers the perceived value/relevance of the average connection
- getting on the right lists becomes a vector for clout-farming dynamics that turn otherwise decent posters into terminally online goblins (pejorative)
- drama over who's being disincluded
