That's surely nothing to worry about .
It's surely totally normal for it to take forever to "process" a follow.

When trying to follow a few profiles on my new profile @rye

@rye @rye yes sometimes.
if you find out why that happens tell me because on a instance i am admin on that happens too.
@ellis @rye i'll need too look at the huge error backlog it logs to my glitchtip (the small number of 192 issues in less than 24h)
@rye @rye that's a lot