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thenewgreen  ·  3369 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Here's a question: what's the point of following people or having followers?

By following people you get the things they post and share in your feed. It's using people to help tailor your feed.

Take a look at my feed, does it look different that yours?

https://hubski.com/feed?id=thenewgreen

Edit: a lot of people will start out by following tags and then transition to adding people as they get to know certain users etc.

Edit2: if you haven't already, I definitely recommend reading the primer: https://hubski.com/primer