kouhai, Breaker of Caches<p>TL;DR: just send a request!</p><p>however, if I reject/don't act on it, here's why:</p><p>honestly, I've had enough of the twitter game. been there, made a million-impression hit tweet, done that, etc</p><p>this is why I'm going to be a bit more choosy on fedi. here's three of the heuristics that I look for when accepting/rejecting a follower request:</p><p>- pronouns in bio (are you a friend/ally of BLÅHAJ?)<br>- signs of internet presence (will you become a friend? *peek*)<br>- is your instance administration generally decent? (i.e., not terfy, etc.)</p><p>(also, I procrastinate request acceptance)</p><p>this isn't a move to a mutuals-only account, but these make for a very loose approximation! as a general rule, I’ll probably follow you for a week or so before I approve your follow</p><p>I won't accept everyone, and I'll run a mental implementation of generational gc on my follows/followers every now and then to keep things nice and clean.</p><p>click through to the rest of this thread for further contact details, and some other thoughts.</p><p><a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/noxp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>noxp</span></a></p>