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Lately I've been asking myself if I truly need to follow someone, or it could simply be something that happens with an algorithm behind the scenes. Why do we still need to follow?

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I guess what you describe is TikTok (as I understand it, there’s the feed of accounts you follow, and the one where it’s just recommended content, and most people use the latter). I think it’s not always desirable because it ends up with perverse side effects like people having…
Explicitly following people gives you a chronological feed of builders you actually trust without an algorithm burying niche technical posts in favor of rage-bait.