Good morning. I know that #Mastodon has a feature that keeps people from seeing who you follow or who follows you as well as hiding your posts or/and deleting them after a certain amount of time. Maybe it's the hangover from other #socialmedia platforms, but I am always reticent to follow back people who have no posts, because I'm conditioned to assume they are #bots. Thoughts on me reforming my Pavlovian response?
@MrTChace I read somewhere that following back is more usual and expected on Mastodon then it is on Twitter ... that it isn't seen as "cool" to have many more followers than you are following. I think Mastodon aims to take the ego out of follower/following ratios by not having any sort of algorithm to factor in to the whole notion. I don't know if that helps as it doesn't address the bot issue! But, on the whole, I find it a lot more friendly over here, and have to wonder if perhaps the lack of algorithm renders bots less likely to pursue a follower count ...?
@kasey You may be right. Hopefully this will remain a bot and troll free zone for a good, long time. We can hope anyway. 🤞