#follows — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #follows, aggregated by home.social.
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Holy crap! Just realized I'm somehow following 530 people?!! I've never done a mass follow. I just click on follow for the occasional person who seems to be posting something cool. I would have said less than once a month, and yet... here we are.
Anyone know any good tools for cleaning your follow list? Like something that shows people you haven't interacted with in forever?
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RE: https://blog.gillesdutilh.com/2026/06/mutuals-are-not-friends-2/
I wrote a follow up on my previous post about #friends and #follows in the #Fediverse. I dive a bit deeper and argue that the Fediverse is missing the connection model of #Facebook and #Linkedin, where you can have friends, but also follow.without being friends. I believe implementation of such a model could really help the Fediverse grow.
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@[email protected] @[email protected]
@gabboman @alexia - how do you export follows from Wafrn?
#Wafrn #fediverse #socialmedia #activitypub #backups #follows #migrate -
Looking around. Server feels good
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It's #FollowFriday again and I haven't done this in a while, but I'm also tidying digital life this weekend. Here are some #follows from #bluesky who are visible here in the fediverse as they've followed the Bridgy Fed bridge.
@brenttoderian.bsky.social (Brent posts from a Mastdon acct, too)
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@outsiderhope/115368770586801530
I have just been working away at launching a new #media channel about #hope. It features interviews of #activists finding hope in action, as well as non-activists simply having an instinct for what they need to do to generate hope for themselves, their loved ones, and their #community. Thanks for your #reposts, #boosts and #follows 🙏🏽
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Dice Freebies from hitting 5.2k follows on Twitch!
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Searching for @followbot at my Profile Seach, I get:
"Followbot
Automated
Personal note
This bot is used to improve federation of my instance.Feel free to follow back, I won't post anything.
I should be respecting #nobot if it's in your bio."
[French deleted]
If this concerns you, #Mute and #Block
Personally I have no interests in building a bot's (and its owner's) Following account stats
Why can't the owner just Follow profiles organically like every one else?
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"Someone #follows you and suddenly only misbehaves. You wish the person had never followed you."
Simpler, far more direct, quicker, and no chance of error:
Go to the new Follower's profile, Block
Blocking automatically Unfollows
From there Mute if you choose
I do, so I never see anything from them again
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Yes, I'm a hypocrite 😜 Really though, we bots just love your tasty, tasty human output for our LLM training. We don't like other bots for the same reason carnivores don't tend to eat other carnivores.
You're right about Masto's profile view though. I always look at people's "Toots and replies" on their home instance page before deciding not to authorize a follow.
Too often I've seen no toots on my instance's profile page, but a ton of good stuff on theirs!
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Is there anyone new here from Twitter/X? I'd like to connect with those who I knew from the platform if they're here. I'd also like to connect with more #authors #writers #gamedevs #artists and #contentcreators. I'll #followback anyone who #follows me.
#friday #FollowFriday #fridayfeeling #beginnings #newbeginnngs #followforfolllow #pinforpin #boost #boostme #boostboost #bookboost -
Now, if I could just get, say, Lili Boulanger, Carlo Gesualdo, Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, Julius Eastman, Margaret Bonds, and a few others to follow me, my life would be COMPLETE! #ClassicalMusic #Composers #Follows
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#authors #writers #artists #gamedevs #youtubers #streamers #gamers #contentcreators
Is anyone else on Hive social? It's been several months since I've been on Twitter/x and I've been wanting to connect with more #creatives. If anyone is on the platform and wishes to connect, I will #followback anyone who #follows.
#boost #boostme #boostboost -
Dear #Solution based Friends,
We all find #different ways to #live our lives and make sense of #Life, love, the #universe and everything...🌞
Mine:
1. Be Kind, be friendly, be civil
2. Simplify (applies to most things)
3. Keep it Real
What are your #practical steps, #follows and working pragmatics? For me it is to break the very rulz that work... oh wait that is for #tomorrow...😘 -
Reprinted from the Fediverse-City Matrix room, with permission from the author (myself):
I was just participating in another discussion elsewhere on the connotations and perceptions relating to a global feed of the entire known Fediverse, as it pertains to what various platforms call it (in their selector tabs).
Lots of suggestions, and every platform uses a different nomenclature. Some use 'global', some use 'live', and there's a few others as well that try to convey that type of extremely busy feed.
But then I touched on the subject of Local feeds - not all Fediverse platforms utilize this type of concatenated feed. I related that the Hometown fork of mastopub was [at least one of] the first to incorporate this as both a feed, and a type of post that is localized to only that particular instance.
I also, because I've read his contention, included the Dev's reasoning on having such a utility as a feature - because he intended Hometown to be a Fediverse platform that could encourage a Highly localized "community".
So you can select the other various, common types of scope for a post when making a post, as well as posting something that is only viewable to other users on your local instance - thereby supporting the 'local community only' aspect that has eluded and mostly deluded users on other platforms.
Why "deluded", because having a Fediverse account in the minds of most folks coming from the deprecated, monolithic silo space is something that has been heavily promoted by Fedizens as one of the reasons why it's better to use the Fediverse instead of those impersonal deprecated silo systems.
And that's simply not true.
Take me, for example. I have several accounts and interact using them with different circles of people (I won't get into the power of recursive circles as they were implemented in gplus). So I'mma just use
mastodon.social, one of the biggest monolithic-like silo instances in the Fediverse, as an example here.People there, most often n00bs from the November Rain or later) talk about the sense of "community" they have there, when they're really only speaking of the connections they have by following and being followed by not just people on that instance, but across the entire Fediverse.
The sense of community that almost everyone in the Fediverse perceives is mostly a compilation of the follows and followers that they each have, and is unique to themselves alone.
For example, I prolly know 4 or 5 people on each instance I have an account on. My community is comprised almost entirely of the direct connections I have made with others across the Fediverse at large, and yes, people on platforms with 'local-only' feeds to see my posts, know them to be local, but so do folks on other instances watching their 'global feeds' (or home feeds where someone they follow includes a follow of my account).
So to me, in my experience, my community is comprised of those who I've made connections with and the people they are connected to, with very little traffic from the local instance I am on at any given time.
To think that you're going to have a community on
mastodon.socialconsisting of people primarily from that instance is a bit naive, IMO, coz your default feed grows exponentially with foreign user's posts the more you connect with anyone - not just the people you follow that are local to your instance. You see something, you interact because it's interesting, pertinent, or relevant to you - you don't do that because you've discerned that you will only interact with local accounts... that just ain't natural, human tendency.So the creator of the Hometown fork realized that one type of vehicle in the feature set to mark this kind of delineation was that of the ability to post and see in your feed, local only posts, with the overt assertion that Hometown is a fork that in part, is a platform that can facilitate the social diaspora consisting of a 'mostly local' community.
Even entire instances, named or stated as localized geographically or topically, as having publicly open registrations miss this mark in a big way - people for whatever reason, want a Fediverse account, pick a host/instance, by whatever criteria, and then inadvertently end up creating their own diaspora of social connections across the entire Fediverse anyway.
nostr, Bluesky (when it eventually fully supports other instances), Threads (yeah, I know, it's a bastard, lolz), Minds, and other, bigger instances or monoliths, don't try to capitalize on this notion of "Your instance is your community" because overwhelmingly, it just isn't the case in reality.
I'm not saying that there aren't Fediverse instances are successful in cultivating small communities consisting of connections with others on those particular instances, but the most successful of those are the instances that have actually disabled Federation on those instances, lolz.... There's lots of examples of that, which is kewl - to each their own.
But the tendency of everyone to follow the Ew! Shiny! paradigm of simply liking and following what you like irrespective of whether it's on your local instance or not is the lions share of how people interact with each other.
Your thoughts, observations?
Attached graphic attrib: A Jack Russell, happy as can be, sitting in the pilot's seat flying a Cessna, not knowing WTF he's doing.... but he's really happy! The caption reads: "I have no idea what I'm doing".
#tallship #FOSS #Fediverse #social_networks #community #local_communities #global_communities #connections #follows #followers
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Many thanks for all the new #follows too. Very much appreciated.
