i was featured on there once and in honor of how fun it was to see my user there i like to go thru and follow everybody who is being featured!!! its nice to be appreciated and to spread the love!!! like they are always cool ppl and i love making new friends on pi.fyi and getting to see more fun/unique recs so its a win-win
i see really cool/ funny/ smart people and 90% of the time they just follow me back straight away. itβs one of the joys of not having a big following β you can make more friends with strangers! i think the art of that is lost with influencer culture, because why would you follow a βfanβ back straight away (particularly when you have 50k plus of them?) also iβm a βrising userβ after posting like 6 times which gives me a huge ego boost. Small App is IN ππ
complimenting strangers is such a fulfilling experience thats adds some positivity to both you and a strangers day, i think a lot of people are afraid of the other person thinking that they're weird or smth but how many times have you received a passing compliment and thought it was weird prolly not very often not to mention you'll prolly never see them again and you only live once
there's a deep sincerity that comes with talking to someone new to a scene or meeting new people in a hobby or space you enjoy that i feel is lost in the cynicism and inherent negativity of most social media platforms (present company excluded) and i think getting outside and meeting new people in your community is a really beautiful thing that more people should do
