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   Eugen Rochko (gargron@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jul-2023 08:14:37 JST Eugen Rochko

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   • かき@GNUsocialJP
   • Randahl Fink

   @randahl It's a universal limit, you can follow up to 7,500 and then a a ratio of 1.1x of your own followers (so if you have 7,500 followers, you can follow more people). We implemented it very long ago as an anti-abuse mechanism; similar limits exist on other social media platforms.

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     Randahl Fink (randahl@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jul-2023 08:14:38 JST Randahl Fink

     I have really come to love Mastodon. So much so, I have followed everyone I found interesting, and everyone who has followed me.

     Now I am following 7,500 people, and while I really enjoy that, Mastodon now prevents me from following anyone else.

     I do not understand, why Mastodon would have such a rule. To me it seems very counterproductive to the whole concept of connecting with people from all over the world.

     Tobias Hellgren repeated this.
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     Level 98 (level98@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jul-2023 08:15:44 JST Level 98

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     • Randahl Fink

     @Gargron @randahl Then I encourage more people to follow Randahl! 😀

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     Joseph A. Langley (josephalangley@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jul-2023 12:15:32 JST Joseph A. Langley

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     • Randahl Fink

     @Gargron @randahl
     Thank you for the explanation! I thought that's what it said, reading the information on GitHub, but I've been mistaken before.

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     Randahl Fink (randahl@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jul-2023 15:46:55 JST Randahl Fink

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     @Gargron thank you Eugen. That makes a lot of sense. I remember how the follow function on Twitter was abused by pornographic accounts to get attention. That was quite annoying.

     However, the current error message is not accurate then. Could a solution be to add a "Read more" link to the message?

     Alternatively, I believe updating the error message to explain the exact rule would be helpful.

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     івась тарасик (tivasyk@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 30-Jul-2023 18:27:17 JST івась тарасик

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     • Randahl Fink

     @Gargron a user has asked you _why_ such a limit exists, but instead of answering the question you…

     a) confirm that it does then b) go on to give some details on how exactly it works, then c) state that the limitation has been introduced «very long ago» and d) excuse its existance by refering to other social networks likiting their users…

     what about the actual «why» question?

     @randahl