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The People page helps you manage your social graph: who follows you, who you follow, and any pending requests. This page covers following and unfollowing, handling follow requests, removing followers, private accounts, and how following shapes your feed. Following is free for everyone.
Go to People from the top navigation bar, or open your profile and click Followers or Following.
At the top of the People page you can see how many people follow you and how many you follow. Click either count to open the full list.
To follow another user, visit their profile at /user/[username] and click Follow.
Profile URLs are not case-sensitive: /user/adron and /user/Adron reach the same person. /@username works as a shortcut too. Usernames themselves are made up of letters, numbers, _, . and -; if you sign up with anything else (a space, say), it becomes an underscore in your URL while your display name keeps exactly what you typed.
To stop following someone, visit their profile and click Unfollow, or use the following list on the People page.
Once you and another person follow each other, a Message button appears on their profile alongside Follow, which opens a direct-message conversation with them. See Direct Messages.
If you followed a private account and are waiting for approval, that relationship shows as "Requested" on their profile. There is no separate list of outgoing requests in the UI; check the profile you requested to see its current status.
When your account is private (Settings, then Permissions), new followers must request to follow you. Pending requests appear on the People page under Pending Follow Requests.
You can approve or reject each request individually. The request count badge disappears once all requests are resolved.
If someone follows you and you want to remove them without blocking:
This removes them as a follower. They can follow you again unless you have a private account (in which case they would need to request again).
When you enable Private Account in Settings, then Permissions:
Switching back to a public account does not automatically re-expose previously hidden content to unapproved followers.
Your Home feed can be filtered by viewing preference (Settings, then View Preferences):
Choose Following Only if you want a curated feed of people you have chosen to follow.