#BenjaminEllis
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Birdsite refugees may have to learn protocols of symmetric follow of friends, or else they may get muted in Mastodon.
In 2008, the contrast with asymmetric follow was surfaced. #BenjaminEllis wrote:
> Asymmetric follow is a hack in social software to enable ‘relationships’ to scale. It is broadcast, not conversation”
@timoreilly responded:
> Not so. I follow 400; am followed by 16,000. But I respond to lots of people (like you) who I didn’t know before. Not just broadcast.”
"Asymmetrical Follow: A Core Web 2.0 Pattern" | James Governor | Dec. 8, 2008 at https://redmonk.com/jgovernor/2008/12/05/assymetrical-follow-a-core-web-20-pattern/
