What’s the point? Is it just to be like twitter? Why did twitter have that anyway. And if I hide mine I still show up in other people’s public follower pages? That’s dumb

  • 3 dogs in a trenchcoat@slrpnk.netOP
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    yeah but 1. You can just look at what posts they boost. 2. Why are your follows still visible if you hide them in privacy settings 3. Why is there no way to publically show who you’re following without also showing who’s following you

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      For point one: Not everyone is into boosting or retweeting. Some actually find it a bit obnoxious.

      Some people I might enjoy finding to follow, friends, community members, etc, might not be ones to post anything boost worthy.

      For the other points, I assume these are just artifacts of Mastodon’s federated nature? Not sure exactly.

      These sorts of platforms are not designed like a Facebook profile.