Mastodawn

I'm still rejecting 5+ follow requests every day from people who haven't read my text about me not accepting following requests from people I haven't interacted with and who I don't have something in common with.

I sometimes feel a bit bad about it, but if we have nothing in common, and we have never interacted it often is hard to figure out if the account is real, that there is a person behind it etc, I don't report these, because that wouldn't make any sense, but it's kind of weird, some times it feels bottish when I get 6 follow requests from the same account.

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Mark Krueger 3d ago

@sotolf I have a theory that people see a bunch of interesting toots and click request follow. Then go about their days and forget. Then a few weeks later, again, they see cool toots and think...wait, did I forget to follow this person? And they click request follow again. And the cycle continues. The problem is you have too many cool and interesting toots :-)

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sotolf 2d ago

@markkrueg But not interesting enough to look at the profile

Here a pinned post regarding followers,
I will accept a follow if we have been interacting and you pass the sniff test.
If we haven't interacted, and I don't find much that we have in common in your profile or comments I will most likely not accept.
I'm not here to get "internet famous" I'm here to have some fun, and I'm being cautious for multiple reasons, so think about it before requesting a follow, or you might be surprised why I don't accept the request.

I don't know, it's clumsily written, it's me after all, but I do think it gets it across at least :)

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Mark Krueger

@sotolf I think it’s clear and well written. I especially like the “internet famous” part; as it really gets to the difference between the fediverse and other social media sites/platforms.