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How many of you enable request to follow? (lemmy.one)
submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I recently made a mastodon account after deleting mine about six months ago. Joining Lemmy has made me curious about what I left behind.

Do you enable require follow requests?

I used to be pretty permissive, but the people I admired had that turned on. I turned it on for my new account the moment I thought to ask this question.

Are there upside or downsides to this? Please share any thoughts I want to know if it even matters.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I don't share (or like) anything that I don't want made public, so I don't mind who follows my profiles on social media. But some people would rather keep a lower profile or be more selective of who can interact with them, so it's better to have the option available.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

It’s hard enough already to get followers and SEE content from people you follow. Making a request to follow someone makes it even worse in my opinion.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I run a GoToSocial instance and have it on, not so much because I don't want to allow people to follow me (so far I think I've approved all requests) but because having it off means that a bot can easily get to my followers-only posts and archive or distribute them, and some iffy instances have been doing that in order to build search engines and the like.