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Maybe it’s just me, but I don’t see “following” as an endorsement at all. To me, it’s an incredibly passive action which affects nothing but a near-meaningless internet number and the content which shows up in your feed. For example, I follow over 3000 accounts on one of my social media profiles. Do my views need to perfectly align with every single one of those? When does it become not okay to follow someone?

My point is, people can follow a page for a multitude of reasons. I follow several online accounts and politicians specifically because I disagree with the content they post. I personally think it’s better to know what your enemy is up to rather than to stick your head in the sand and pretend they don’t exist.

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whatsarefoogee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
No, you’re a normal person.

The internet politics have just turned to rabid purity testing, where even reading what the opposition (of any issue) says is considered endorsement and betrayal.

A sane person will look abnormal in an insane asylum. And I don’t know how to better describe Twitter than an insane asylum.

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Veraticus@lib.lgbt ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

Do my views need to perfectly align with every single one of those?

No, definitely not.

When does it become not okay to follow someone?

When their objectionable opinions are pointed out to you and you seem to be basically okay with it. For example, not unfollowing the person, not stating your disagreement with said objectionable opinions, or offering why you think whatever they posted does not actually contain said objectionable opinion.

I follow several online accounts and politicians specifically because I disagree with the content they post.

On Twitter, a follow is viewed as a passive endorsement that you like someone’s content and want to see more of it. You can disagree with this but I think that’s fighting an uphill battle. I mean, it’s 2023, Twitter is two decades old, and as far as I know this cultural more has been true for most of that time.

You don’t have to follow people to see their content, after all. It is a positive act which does mean something, and I’ve described what it typically means in the vocabulary of the Internet.

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