I don't think follow bots are a good idea, because they make the federated timeline the same on every node. Without them, the federated timeline is still an expression of the interests of the node's users.
@lambadalambda Definitely a fine balancing game between fragmenting one's attention and keeping individual nodes unique.
@lambadalambda Never though I'd say this, but seems like G+ got this right w/ circles...
@cr1901 I think the diaspora/g+ style circles are interesting, but I don't think they are 'right', just a different approach. I like the simplicity of gnu social.