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...
Non-responsive people or accounts...
@freeschool Thank you for your comment.