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If someone recommends an account to follow and it looks blank to you, it probably isn't actually blank! It probably just looks that way when you view it from your server.

If you follow the account, future posts will start showing up on your server.

It is confusing, but there are really good reasons why it happens. You can read more about it (including how to check what a profile really looks like, and how to prevent your own profile looking blank) here:

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fedi.tipsWhy does someone’s account page look completely blank? Is it really blank? | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse
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Nicole Parsons

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Blocking & muting accounts with few posts and few followers is a harassment-prevention strategy that is a holdover from Twitter.

It works to thwart coat-tailing, sock puppets, swarming, advertisers, and targeted harassment campaigns.

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deilann v -0.2.1. :neodog_hyper: :neodog_nom_verified:

@Npars01 @feditips

you can also just look at their account on their instance to verify if it's actually blank or if it's not connected with your instance

even if someone recommended it to you, they may have accidentally gotten part of the handle wrong

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@deilann @Npars01

Yeah, that's the "original page" feature which is mentioned in the article 👍

deilann v -0.2.1. :neodog_hyper: :neodog_nom_verified:

@feditips @Npars01

original page is so helpful in so many circumstances

like if i had clicked it this time i would have seen that tons of people from instances limited by mine have already mentioned this twenty times and bringing it up again isn't useful

Nicole Parsons

@feditips @deilann

I do try to look at the original page but it often doesn't work for some reason.

404 error a lot of the time

deilann v -0.2.1. :neodog_hyper: :neodog_nom_verified:

@Npars01 @feditips

i have a few follow requests in limbo like that and it's because they're almost assuredly part of the groups mentioned but they gave up on the instance they spun to try and follow me due to no bite

but it's still cached in there, despite the instance they tried from no longer being up

deilann v -0.2.1. :neodog_hyper: :neodog_nom_verified:

@Npars01 @feditips

i purposefully don't deny follow requests, but leave them in limbo to identify patterns

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