AndreⓐApr 9, 2017
Follow bots apparently run by instance admins: why don't you just patch the code to pull everything from other instances without the follow?
Show threaddeadbabeApr 9, 2017
@puellavulnerata have nawt been following, what are these followbots doing
Show threadAndreⓐApr 9, 2017
@0xdeadbabe automated cross-instance follows to import things into the federated timeline
Show threadAndreⓐ
@0xdeadbabe and/or to compensate for Mastodon apparently only caching toots and userpics for remote accounts when at least one local user follows
Apr 9, 2017 at 6:28pmWeb