Coming soon in Mastodon 4.6 - a redesigned profile page. We've used community feedback and surveys to inform these updates. In our latest blog post, @imanijoy explains our design thinking and choices. Here are a few highlights đź§µ

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/03/a-redesign-for-profiles/

A Redesign for Profiles

Sharing the design thinking for the new look coming to profile pages.

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@Mastodon Could you make an option to display the "You follow each other" resp. "Follows you" badge on the profile page, please? Preferably more (!) prominent than it was before you've removed it.
@Mastodon (I don't need a giant "Unfollow" button. But I definitely need this badge instead of checking the "Following" list each and every time.)

@katzentratschen @Mastodon It shows up if the other profile is following you in the context menu (if there's a option to remove follower, then they are following you).

To be fair, let's think on the pros and cons of keeping and removing. IMHO, I agree it ranks low in terms of establishing both trust and interest an account, because many spammers follow hundreds of accounts trying to get followed back (I often block them), but I don't think that's a good reason for removing this info. I also don't think there's a good reason for making it more prominent either.

@qgustavor @katzentratschen @Mastodon Thanks for the feedback, and we'll keep that in mind!
@qgustavor
I’m on an instance that doesn’t have a bot-mass-follow problem. That really sounds like a mass instance problem (hey, .social!). Also for locked accounts “I got followed by hundreds of bot accounts without noticing” is inherently not a thing™ and these are very popular around here...
@katzentratschen @Mastodon
@qgustavor
Not that I think, Glitch will remove it either way, so personally I don’t care much.
@katzentratschen @Mastodon