I don’t use twitter or mastodon, and have clearly misunderstood. I thought that the point was you only saw things from people you were following, or maybe things people you follow shared from other people they follow? Presumably this is not right, because if it was you would just not follow any spam-bots.
They’re are a bunch of cases where you would see something from someone you didn’t choose to interact with. Someone could tag you in a post, boost (retweet/share), favorite (like), or reply to (comment on) one of your posts, follow you, or send you a direct message.
I don’t use twitter or mastodon, and have clearly misunderstood. I thought that the point was you only saw things from people you were following, or maybe things people you follow shared from other people they follow? Presumably this is not right, because if it was you would just not follow any spam-bots.
They’re are a bunch of cases where you would see something from someone you didn’t choose to interact with. Someone could tag you in a post, boost (retweet/share), favorite (like), or reply to (comment on) one of your posts, follow you, or send you a direct message.