a practice i think can be really nice actually but which doesn't seem very widespread is like following people for just a little while to get to know them as people and then unfollowing and following other people??
because like once you get to know someone as a person you don't necessarily need to see them literally every day right? and it lets you get to know more different people and like recognize a lot of faces and make a lot of new friends
you: kibi i just follow everybody so i don't have that problem
WELL I'M AN INTROVERT OKAY
but i feel like people take unfollows as like a hit to their self-esteem and i mean that's already bad because it makes it harder for people to set effective boundaries but it also just requires you to constantly be escalating your sociality if you ever want to meet new faces!! idk
idk i have a lot of friends who don't follow me on mastodon at ALL i think it's a little silly to act like whether someone follows me on mastodon has to say something about whether or not they're my friend
