Shar(yna)Tran/Shark(aeopteryx)@Sharksonaplane@mastodon.sandwich.net
Whenever I hit a follower "milestone" I try to go through and review nonmutuals who follow me to help keep my feed safer for those I follow. Doing this today only affirmed that locking down follows (which I originally only did because I saw timeline-creeping by someone I didn't trust) was a good idea, now I can do this as requests come in and not randomly.
Shar(yna)Tran/Shark(aeopteryx)@Sharksonaplane@mastodon.sandwich.net
To clarify, I always checked new follows anyway to boot obvious bigots, spammers, and trolls. However, sometimes they would slip through the cracks. On this pass, most removals/blocks were genocide deniers/"blue no matter who" types (lotta overlap there) who had followed me before 7 Oct and hadn't been displaying those views at that volume at that point. I also removed some "claim to mean well, do not have the range to engage, absolutely will engage to aggro people they say they support" types.