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What's with mastodon and the other microblogging software having public "following" pages (self.fediverse)
submitted 1 month ago by 3dogsinatrenchcoat to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
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What's the point? Is it just to be like twitter? Why did twitter have that anyway. And if I hide mine I still show up in other people's public follower pages? That's dumb

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[–] akesi_seli@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Since I worked on a Mastodon client, I know that there is a hide_collections parameter in the account settings which allows you to not disclose publicly your followers and following.

It's in the PATCH v1/accounts/update_credentials API request body, see documentation here.