Shar(yna)Tran/Shark(aeopteryx)@Sharksonaplane@mastodon.sandwich.net
To clarify, I always checked new follows anyway to boot obvious bigots, spammers, and trolls. However, sometimes they would slip through the cracks. On this pass, most removals/blocks were genocide deniers/"blue no matter who" types (lotta overlap there) who had followed me before 7 Oct and hadn't been displaying those views at that volume at that point. I also removed some "claim to mean well, do not have the range to engage, absolutely will engage to aggro people they say they support" types.
Shar(yna)Tran/Shark(aeopteryx)@Sharksonaplane@mastodon.sandwich.net
You don't have to be completely knowledgeable about everything to follow me (I'm certainly not), but I have to at least try to trust you won't make things worse for the people you say you want to learn from when you talk to them.
Anyway, tracking follows here sucks but if you see someone who follows me (or who I follow) being obnoxious to someone in the name of "I will be an asshole until/while you teach me about racism/transphobia/misogyny/colonialism/etc ad nauseam," feel free to let me know.