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What's with mastodon and the other microblogging software having public "following" pages

What's the point? Is it just to be like twitter? Why did twitter have that anyway. And if I hide mine I still show up in other people's public follower pages? That's dumb

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  • Since I worked on a Mastodon client, I know that there is a hide_collections parameter in the account settings which allows you to not disclose publicly your followers and following.

    It's in the PATCH v1/accounts/update_credentials API request body, see documentation here.

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