Do You Formally Follow On-Chain Everyone Who You Truly Follow On Hive?

As I was staring at my profile without a reason, thinking about a topic to write about today, I noticed I was approaching 1000 followers (more like passed 900, lol), and a 70 rep.

Neither of these metrics holds as much relevance as it should.

Reputation was highly manipulated in the early days of the former blockchain via the voting bots, and many followers are often long-dead or dormant accounts.

As I was staring at this, I realized I don't rely on the on-chain following mechanics at all these days. I have an impressive amount of people (better said accounts) on notification for when they post something new and rarely check my feed anymore.

On my gaming account, I have 14 accounts that I "follow" using the notification method. On my main posting account, a staggering 51 accounts. And I take a look at every single one of their posts, at least the title and the first few lines of text. If I'm not interested, I don't open the post.

Often I leave a backlog of posts to read and sometimes they add up to a couple of days old. Sometimes I vote for them in advance after I browse through for a very rough idea (that is another reason why section titles help), to make sure I catch the 24h voting period.

After looking at these lists of accounts I have on notification, I noticed I only formally follow on-chain some of them. Even if I don't currently put much emphasis on the formal following mechanism on-chain, I wonder if I'm doing the right thing.

First, I know from experience that people love that new follower notification.

Second, it is a sort of a public statement - I follow this guy or gal. Sure, this can become obvious from regular comments and (to a much lesser degree) from votes.

And third, the lists of notifications I've created are centralized. Gone is the service, gone is the list. It's not like it's the first time a service provider disappears without warning in the crypto world.

I'm thinking I should start following on-chain these people/accounts I have on notification-only if they are still active. Even if I rarely check my feed. Although you never know what the future holds.

What about you? Do you formally follow on-chain everyone who you truly follow on Hive? Why yes or no?

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