i would just say that “expect to not know the voting record of every person you interact with, treat them like people, and be ready to judge them primarily based off what they bring to your interactions” is a standard MO in TPOT
and we talk abt tpot as if it's one entity but each account in it only follows a subset of other tpot accounts and often has others muted / blocked w a mental list of complaints abt why that account sucks... sometimes political often not
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Reply · Jan 4, 2023@samswoora Yeah I’ve been thinking about this… part of what makes tpot work is feeling like it’s an iterated game, you work on earning your follows…Reply · May 4, 2023😞 i am both on the list and do not qualify as tpotReply · May 30, 2023I think there's a cluster but it isn't as tightly connected as ppl think and that for any account in it there are ppl who think the account is central…Reply · Jul 19, 2023it literally stands for The Praxis of TPOT and is a cluster of accounts who more or less manage to coexist despite ideological differences