@lilletale nah, but they get everything else, which is logically part of 'following' imo
@lilletale yeah so with a locked account they can ask to follow you and you can say no, or they can just grab your rss feed and there's nothing you can do
@f0x @lilletale there's so many settings in mastodon that should be toggle-able but just aren't for some reason
@dumpsterqueer @f0x That would solve a lot
@f0x But I don't see the difference between them reading all your unlocked posts before asking to follow and making an RSS feed. Both behaviours are creepy, but the posts are publicly available and count as publicly available information
@lilletale yeah, it's more that Mastodon is facilitating the easy, continuous, stalking of people's public feeds, as opposed to them having to keep lots of profile tabs open in their browser to refresh them manually
@f0x But having an RSS fed is following, just in a different format