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How many of you enable request to follow? (lemmy.one)
submitted 1 year ago by DidacticDumbass@lemmy.one to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml
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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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[–] Dirk@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year 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.

[–] modulus@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year 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.