#QOTO: I have followed a number of accounts recently. Some of them are through flipboard and others are private accounts. The toots from the flipboard account such as Flipboard UK (see image) are showing in my home timeline but still have the 'egg timer' sign and I am being asked if I want to cancel follow request. The other set of accounts (private) just have the cancel request with the "egg timer" and none of their toots appear in my home timeline. I was wondering if there is anything I can do to resolve this situation?
Non-responsive people or accounts...
@freeschool Thank you for your comment.
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@bibliolater The egg timer means you followed them but werent approved yet. This can happen for many reasons such as:
* The user set up their account so they need to approve followers
* you as a user, or the entire instance, is muted but not blocked, thus requiring the user to approve followers
* The user or the instance has either you as a user or our instance blocked.
@undefined @freemo Thank you for the clarification.
Non-responsive people or accounts...
@bibliolater
I can't say for sure but I noticed a few things:
cross platforms / new platforms have this often
and mostly it's people who use platforms only for broadcasting and don't manage accounts almost at all other than that.
The egg timer is showing the person on the other side needs to accept you follow request - but they mostly don't bother even on mastodon itself (they don't even reject my request or respond to DM's)
So I'd say this is a social problem or incomplete things from incomplete individual management by these people just using a system but not interacting with their fans or messages.
FlipboardUK just sounds like another big thing that wouldn't care / see worth for individual users messages and I have am following tons like that for software etc... but if it's suddenly a money or more urgent thing you might get their attention...