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Why do I have a bunch of people in my “following” & “followers” list that I KNOW I didn’t follow, and when I click on their profile it shows as not following, gives me the opportunity to follow…but not block or mute or remove these followers. Moreover, I never received notifications of these followers. WTF is this evil?

@JoBlakely have people changed their name/avatar? And if you change instance can you keep your following/followers connections?

@nicksalt nope. It’s just people I never followed or approved as followers, even though I have approvals on. And I can’t block, make unfollow, mute, etc. I can however unfollow even tho when I click on their profile it doesn’t show them as either of us following each other. It’s deceptive and secret and protected and slides in unannounced and unremovable.

@JoBlakely Yeah that's weird!? You'd think if you have follow requests activated then you would only get approved followers? And you automatically following random ppl is odd...

*Spooky music* Maybe you sleep followed them...

What have your admins to say about it?

Good question. @Gargron can you please help or answer why I have approvals on, yet I have a bunch of followers (and some I am supposedly following) that I never approved, never followed, and CANNOT REMOVE OR BLOCK OR MUTE them. In fact my ability to block accounts seems to be severely diminished. And it seems random.

@JoBlakely Could you take a screenshot of the page this appears on and send to me at eugen@joinmastodon.org? If no screenshot is possible, I at least need to know one name of an account that appears as a follower despite not being a follower.

@Gargron here are two:
I can look for others.

It won’t let me make notes on there profile either.

@hp

Vansice@infosec.exchange

@JoBlakely @Gargron

Curious. It shows you as following me and me not following you. I'm pretty sure I did send a follow request on Nov 8 that the system said you granted and I find your followback in my log a day after that. This is weird.

Jo-king of kings

@hp @Gargron I may have tried to unfollow you? It’s all confusing and inconsistent.

@JoBlakely @Gargron Yeah, I'd definitely understand why. :) Not sure why it won't let you. If I can be of help, please let me know how.