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Ooh. apparently if you use the tag #nobot in your bio, the standard Mastodon followbot won't follow you! I like that. https://mastodon.social/media/cjbb9KGh16WFRvuAyis
@tinysubversions have you seen a good writeup of what followbot does? I'm feeling a bit slow for not understanding its purpose.
@tinysubversions thanks! I think I get it now. The followbot automatically follows people from other instances which adds them to the timeline?
I like that idea of a slower growing network with meaniginful (human driven) connections.
@inkdroid @tinysubversions I know you mean you'd prefer the GROWTH were slow, but I'm pretty sure the process of harvesting content this way is pretty slow...
@inkdroid federated timeline is based on follows between instances so the more follows between instances the more "complete" a federated timeline becomes. I think that is a bad idea, I like a relatively slow growing network.