Did it happen to you like you followed someone but they didn't follow back? so you unfollowed them?
@Sphinx That is not uncommon.
I would say it's a courtesy to follow back someone who discovers you and connects, but not obligatory.
People who have accounts with many followers probably don't want to be innundated by too many posts in their Home feeds.
If the account content is important to you, just leave it like that. Maybe the person will notice you, or your comments in some of their posts, look at your profile and decide to Follow at that time.
Don't assume an automatic follow back, is what I am sayin'. 😉
@design_RG 🤝
it happens to me too!
@Sphinx It's normal, I wouldn't worry.
Waht did worry me is what happened the other day -- a follow request, and when I looked at the user's profile...
About 600 accounts he was following. None were following him/her/they.
That 600 / 0 sounded suspect to me, and I blocked the account.
@design_RG
i think you made the right choice!
@Sphinx Just keep an eye for odd things, look at the user's profile - do they seem to be in a related field to me, similar interests in their description. Some interesting posts in their profile?
I follow back in that case.
If it's something clearly unethical, marketing, escort services, etc, I would not and would remove the account from my Followers list.
Many people have their accounts locked, and follow requests MUST be approved by them.
Usually people who are more security concerned have this enabled.
@design_RG
i opened the follow requests function, sometimes i feel like if i wanted to interact with people here, there is a lot of Chinese content user i can talk with,but i like practice my English and somehow i feel like i can get more engaged in English, it sounds weird i understand...
@Sphinx No, I don't think it's weird - it could be a cultural thing.
That for you, it seems people speaking in English here might be more relaxed and friendly than the Mandarin posting ones.
Formality does vary from culture to culture.
@design_RG
sometimes it also two different thinking style and ideology .
@Sphinx Yes, very true.
I find differences, fairly noticeable, even from North America compared with parts of Europe I have visited.
I've seen this said a couple of times and don't fully understand it. What's the downside to letting them follow you, even assuming it's a malicious bot? It doesn't leak any information beyond what an unregistered third party can gain by looking at your profile in a web browser as I understand things.
On my part I allow a couple such followers, and it helped me get listed in the QOTO directory to get real followers. So there's an upside.
@Sphinx And yes, I have that happen and did not mind or unfollow.