People who have unlocked follows are incomprehensible to me. Oh, you like boosting posts to whatever shithead instance did a follow bot this week?
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"Why do people keep posting very weird replies to me?"
Maybe because your friend is the literal tether to the worst kinds of scum on the platform
@Gobophilly my local administrator server-blocks all followbots on sight, so this isn't really a problem.
Like... it's not twitter those people have to have a path to your posts. Federated timelines don't magically get every post ever, it requires some kind of connection