Comment by zozbot234
4 years ago
"Follow requests" are typically used for sharing private posts in existing social networks: that's why there is a "request and accept" flow. They seem like they should be irrelevant to users who only post content publicly. Does Mastodon require users with public posts to "approve" each of their subscribers?
Not in the UI unless the user's enabled it, but ActivityPub server implementations send an Accept activity in response to a Follow activity.
Seems like GP is right then about some tweaks being advisable. There's no reason why ActivityPub servers should not be able to poll and republish ActivityStreams pages if the server admin arranges for this.