John Spurlocknow Pleroma is special here, it supports following like this in bog-standard ActivityPub!
ie just posting a small json payload to the logged-in user's outbox endpoint
hopefully more ActivityPub servers support this soon, as it should be very similar to what they already do for S2S
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