Automatic approach

[gingerbeardman]

I'm following almost 5000 people, since joining twitter near the beginning.

So I'd appreciate a more automated way to add people i'm following. Even if it just automates the clicking of following and "find more" and I don't mind waiting for it to complete.

[kawamataryo]

I am developing that feature now. Please wait for its release.

[gingerbeardman]

Arigatou!

[cooljeanius]

I'm following almost 5000 people, since joining twitter near the beginning.

Coincidentally, 5000 is also the follow limit... have you hit it yet? I've been perpetually stuck at it since like 2018 (although I might finally clear my backlog soon, with so many people leaving the site recently...)

[gingerbeardman]

Yes, I am constantly up against the follow limit (5001 for me). But only since the last couple of months, which is pretty good for 17 years! I have found that people leaving frees up the odd few accounts over time so I hover under 5000 slightly most of the time.

I value the historic content available through search too highly to want to leave.

[gingerbeardman]

Did you make any progress with this?

[kawamataryo]

Sorry, but I have been busy with the recent birth of my child and have not been able to devote much time to development.
I hope to have this feature developed by the end of next month. Please wait for its release.

[cooljeanius]

Sorry, but I have been busy with the recent birth of my child and have not been able to devote much time to development. I hope to have this feature developed by the end of next month. Please wait for its release.

Congratulations on the child! Please take all the time you need!

[gingerbeardman]

Yes, congratulations! It's important to enjoy these early days of a new child as much as possible as they only happen once :)

[kawamataryo]

I have made some progress on this issue and it looks like we will be able to release it within this month. The video below provides a preview of the current UI design (please note this is subject to potential changes).

Microsoft.Edge.mp4

[gingerbeardman]

How will it be automatic? One click? No clicks?

[kawamataryo]

This is a feature that, once you press the search button, will scrutinize all followers to detect similar users of Bluesky without the need to press the Find more button.

The Follow buttons must be pressed manually one by one. This is because there may be false positives in the detection results.

[gingerbeardman]

Oh, this is not what was request in the OP.

So far there is half solution, automating "find more".

But the real goal is to avoid the need to click follow 5000 times!

[cooljeanius]

I think the issue of false positives is an important one to consider, so the "half solution" of automating the "find more" part still ought to be worthwhile for now, until the problem of how to handle the false positives can be resolved.

[kawamataryo]

I see. If there is a request to ignore false positives and follow in bulk, I will try to accommodate this after releasing this feature. Once this functionality is in place, it should not be too difficult.

[gingerbeardman]

If I could do one click to add all the exact matches, that's good.

Afterwards, perhaps then it could show me a list of only the false matches - a smaller list - which I would then be in a better position to go through manually?

But, I might leave it for another day so it would be good if it could get back to that list of all potential false positives in some quick way.

I'm grateful for your continued work on this! Thank you.

[MagicalDrizzle]

Hi! it seems like this feature is not implemented on Firefox? Actually, Firefox version has been lagging behind for quite a while now...(v0.7.5 vs v0.9.1)