I see a thing about "subscribing" on my #mastodon profile now. don't we already have "following" what is this?
@2ck If for some reason you can't follow them you can subscribe to them (they won't get notified either) and see their public-only toots in one of your timelines/lists.
@trinsec thanks. I'm not sure I like that: I'd rather know when someone's keeping tabs on me, even if it is only public posts
@2ck They could've done so anyway, even if outside Mastodon, as every profile here has an associated RSS feed. They could've used any RSS reader, but now it's simply in the convenience of inside Mastodon. Or rather, inside qoto.
@trinsec well, I didn't know about the RSS feed. I've just looked now, and I only see it from looking at the <link> tags in HTML.
I suppose I don't really mind since I make most of my posts to be public. Still, architecturally, I prefer the application to make subscription where both people know about it the easier option. Often, folks who are interested in me are interesting to me, so I like to follow back: I think that's typical on social media unless you're famous or something like that.
@2ck Some people don't really want to be followed and have locked accounts. Maybe for some reason or whatnot you can't subscribe to them the normal way. I dunno. Whatever it is, the feature's there in case you want it.
It's not a default Mastodon feature by the way. It's added here on qoto.