Follow accounts through birdsite bridges (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

3 comments fedilink hide all child comments

When searching for relevant accounts, I often come across users on Twitter/X with a birdsite mastodon bridge such as @[email protected], which seems to be the most followed Firefox account on mastodon.

However, this account has no visible posts, and when I follow it I get a “Pending”.

How does this work? Thanks

top 3 comments

sorted by: hot top new old

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

To me it looks like you need to be accepted before you can view the posts. Think of it as a private Instagram account.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Right but approved by whom? I doubt Firefox’s X account is reviewing followers manually

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

There might be some kind of AI or rule based system but likely it is manual. It's not like they actually have to review everyone. Imo the system is mostly made for not letting spam bots in.

this post was submitted on 19 Apr 2025

0 points (50.0% liked)

Mastodon

2611 readers

4 users here now

The project: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon

Mastodon instance affiliated with Lemmy.World: https://mastodon.world/

Discuss the Mastodon platform here. Follow the lemmy.world rules.

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]