@TJ_dacks That person may have set their account to require manual approval of followers. It's a bit different here. 😀
The user or instance may also block you or our instance. If you indicate who the user is I may be able to tell you if thats the case.
Yes that user blocks our instance, sorry. I used to follower her and know her well, sadly I remember her blocking our instance because we allow conservatives on our instances (despite our no hate speech rules).
@freemo @nature_jcp Joe Sondow, i mean
Its not the user who blocked us, its the entire instance. It is the admin of the instance that is a she.
@freemo
Ok i see. So the only way to know whether I'm just searching wrong or if I can't follow an account because people I don't even know have beef is to waste a bunch of time fighting the search bar.
This does not feel like a feature. I think it's past my bedtime.
@TJ_dacks NNo its a little easier.. just go direct to the users profile from inside QOTO.. click follow, you will knnow by how the button reacts if your blocked.
Sadly i know it should be more straight forward but sadly servers try to make it not obvious if your are blocked it seems, i guess for privacy or something.
@freemo what I'm saying is I cannot even get to, cannot find, the account within qoto search. With many accounts they just don't show up. Zero results.
@freemo @nature_jcp so that's weird because that user is not a she. It's one of Joe Window's accounts he's moving from Twitter