As a general rule of thumb, I won't follow anyone who:
• Hasn't posted anything yet.
• Doesn't have a bio
It's not that I don't like or don't trust you if you're one of those people, but because ActivityPub has no big scarey algorithm backing it, you must put actual effort into curating your feed. I imagine this is true for quite a few others on the #fediverse.
Michael Connor Buchan
in reply to Michael Connor Buchan • • •I feel I've been seeing more and more people following me lately with absolutely no info on their profile, so I'm going to reiterate this point. I want to follow you all, you might be great people, but I won't know until you tell me, so please do.
This sounds cranky. It's not meant to be, it's just a PSA that because there's no algorithm, the only information we have to go off on whether we should follow you is what you decide to share in your bio, and via the profile metadata.