: on what is the difference if any betwixt following an account and subscribing to an account?

@bibliolater That is not a subscribe icon. That is an RSS feed icon. Try it.

@eatyourglory On my instance it comes as a subscribe button and yes it is a RSS feed icon.

@eatyourglory I have just done it. I have become your subscriber. I cannot tell what it is for.

@bibliolater I did not receive any notification about that. Let me make a normal toot.

@eatyourglory @bibliolater it's a qoto feature allowing for receiving updates of public posts without following. it does respect blocks afaik. cc @freemo

@bonifartius

Right its a qoto feature. Similar to using rss but you receive the content right in your feed as notifications. It is privacy respecting.

@eatyourglory @bibliolater

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