everything continues to be a social action, unfortunately

On Tumblr, and on Twitter before that, I tried to avoid following people until I was reasonably confident that I would continue to want to follow them, because unfollowing people might make them unhappy (and I especially wanted to avoid a situation where I keep vacillating about whether I should follow someone, and they get a notification every time I follow them again, augh). That doesn't really seem like a feasible strategy here, because most of the people I would potentially be subscribing to also just got here, and I don't have any idea what their posts are going to be like. Looking at people's Tumblrs is pretty limited in what it tells me, since this is a different platform which encourages different patterns of use.

So right now I'm subscribing pretty indiscriminately and probably later I'm going to unsubscribe from a lot of people. Which isn't ideal, but seems better than the alternative of waiting for there to be an established community before I try to get involved myself.