@reiver that only works if you can verify ownership of the ids. Easy to do when you control them. But otherwise what do you do? "Tweet this code to confirm that you own this Twitter handle"?
@reiver@SrRochardBunson to me, that just sounds like a convoluted "sign up here to follow your favorite content creators" except one at a time. Maybe someday someone can figure out the logistics. I fear that this doesn't exist yet outside of the Fediverse and might not until other Corporate Social Media sites start to play ball.
I'm sure some people will probably want to follow "creators" and "influencers".
But I was (also) thinking about the mutuals I have on other platforms.
Some are here already. Most aren't.
If any of them joined the Fediverse — I want to follow them.
Right now I'd have to keep on checking to see if they join.
It would be easier if I could just express interest in following them when they join, and the software would auto-follow them for me whenever they actually do.
I guess that's a reminder that we should not judge the success of Threads by membership, since all Instagram users were magically made members by default.
It's not as successful as my own organization, AEFOM (Automatically Enrolled Friends Of Me), which boasts 3 billion users. I made the very smart move of automatically granting membership to all citizens of China, and India, and whatever the third most populous country in the world is.
In the past I searched the Fediverse for some people I am mutuals with on other platforms.
Some I found. Most I didn't.
But I haven't re-searched for most of them (on the Fediverse) recently.
With something like this, I could express my interest in following them whenever they join (without necessarily having to re-search for them every few months).
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