If I follow a person, not subscribing to a magazine, what does that do for me? Do I see their posts/comments somewhere; if so where?
Also, do boosts factor into that or are they purely to bump stuff up in the algorithm?

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    1 year ago

    My experience so far is that following other users has no functionality. Their content submitted in threads is not shown to me in my m/sub page. ETA: I don’t use the microblog portion of the Fediverse and I feel very resistant to that style of social media.

    It is nice to see who has followed me - hopefully this is seen as a group of like-minded individuals and not stalkers/haters, but with a very buried private messaging or direct messaging system, it’s not like I feel like reaching out to these other users for a direct conversation.