A couple of times in the last week, I've noticed that I was not following someone who I'm 100% sure I used to be following. I didn't unfollow them on purpose, they don't have me blocked, and they don't seem to have migrated servers any time recently. Weird.
@jwz Is it possible they moved instances, and the migration didn't work correctly? I have had "issues" after moving my account from one instance to another.
@jwz My account somehow “unfollowed” one of my most cherished friends a few months ago, and that made me look through my list and find another half-dozen people I hadn’t actually unfollowed but whom I was no longer following. It’s a real phenomenon.
@jwz And I note that I hadn’t unfollowed you either but just noticed I wasn’t following you, which I wouldn’t have noticed if you hadn’t just refollowed me.
@jwz This has happened to me, too, along with other things like posts getting deleted(!)
I think it might happen because I use the web interface, and I'm used to scrolling down with the space bar - but sometimes the keyboard focus isn't where I expect it to be, and I end up "clicking" on something I didn't mean to.
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