I am not sure if I am mildly delusional or when a new user joins dev.to, they automatically get added to my followers list.
I got like 10 -12 new followers in the last day or two. I have never had any contact with them and when I visit their profiles, they are mostly blank besides their name and the date they join 3/27-3/28(today).
Am I missing something? Or people who just joined dev.to really begin their journey by following others?
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As part of the sign up flow I believe dev shows a smattering of users who they might be interested in following. You must happen to be on that list right now and thus some people decide to follow you
right that makes more sense. Thanks!.
Yeah, it's feature, not a bug 😀
Changelog: Suggested follows on onboarding!
Ben Halpern ・ Mar 27 '18 ・ 2 min read
Thanks for the reference. All my confusion has been dispelled.
Yes!
It showed me some suggestions and I followed you.
Hi hii 👋🏼
Six years on from this post, after having experienced the opposite side of this. The onboarding process presents a bunch of users (which I did not click on or interact with), so I've reason to believe that the UI is partly responsible for confusing people. When clicking through (which I thought would ignore the suggestions) it adds the 16~ automatically generated picks.
And this made me realize that the random follow on my other social media accounts is one of two things, bot accounts (what I thought they were exclusively originally) or just people who onboarded, and may have had my account pop up as a suggested follow which they ignored.