Somehow, following people on the Fediverse feels more like a thing that sets some big gears in motion, rather than the trivialities that is following people on monolithic platforms. "I find you an interesting person. I shall now instruct my server to convey that fact to your server, and also to kindly have it send anything you deem worthy of sharing the way of my server, so it in its turn can display it in my feed.", rather than "plz set bit in database to true, kthx".
