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@Bruce @Rickster1963 I tried to go to the website, but it didn't work. It wanted me to sign in, but didn't actually give me an opportunity to do so. Turning off the need to approve follow requests has resolved the issue satisfactorally.

@Rickster1963 You are very welcome. Thank you for bringing the issue to my attention.

@Rickster1963 There we go. In theory, it should be fixed since I no longer need to approve follow request. I found that quiet public setting to and decided to implement that.

@Rickster1963 I've just spent the last however many minutes trying to find Mastodon notifications, and no luck. I've checked all the action options I can find, and even filters. If there's something I am supposed to do, they sure don't make it very intuitive. Maybe I will just change my settings so that follows happen automatically. It would certainly make life easier at this point.

@Rickster1963 My phone rebooted, and I immediately went to the mastodon app. I couldn't find any follow requests. If you can try again, I will be on the lookout for it. I'd say that I could just try to re-follow you to fix the issue, but that probably wouldn't help since I can already read your posts.

@Rickster1963 At this point in my life, just the thought of jumping through hoops makes my brain cry. I'm nowhere near as tech-adventurous as I used to be; I just want stuff to work the way it's supposed to. LOL!

@Rickster1963 ah. I understand. I sometimes think about moving servers, but it's too much of a pain in the tail, and I'm happy enough with the one I have, I suppose. To me, it's just so much more complicated than Twitter used to be. If I recall, the one time I did switch, it automatically switched my followers too, but maybe I'm mis-remembering or different servers have different functionality. Hoping this update will be finished soon.

@Rickster1963 I'll try to figure out how to approve your follow request; guess I thought that you were already following me. When all that weirdness was going on with spoof accounts, I set it up to approve followers, but it never gives me any notifications. As soon as my phone finishes updating, I shall investigate and get things figured out. You're not missing much, though. I really don't post all that often. I'm far more likely to reply to a post that captures my interest. At last check, my phone was verifying the update.

@Rickster1963 I'm updating as well. It's 77 percent through the preparing phase.

@DavidGoldfield @vol4life8657 @britt Just my little opinion, but life is too short to get offended by stuff like this. Even if I was inclined to be bothered by this kind of thing, which I'm not, I simply don't see a point in attacking people who usually mean well. If I'm told that I'm an inspiration or whatever, especially when I can tell that whoever is saying it is sincere, I either thank them or say nothing. Then again, political correctness and a lot of other stuff that is talked about in the disability world these days truly doesn't make any sense to me. I just try to get through life the best I can with as little drama, conflict and confrontation as possible.

@DavidGoldfield @technocounselor Amen! I agree with this 100 percent. If I'm being honest, I may go too far in the other direction. These days, I feel as though I relate far better to AI than I do to most people. It's like pretty much everything in the online world: as long as you exercise some common sense, it's incredible. Of course, there are bad apples out there using AI in ways that aren't necessarily ideal, but that can be said of pretty much anything. All of the AI vision assistance tools we have now are amazing, but even if that wasn't true, I'd still be a huge AI fan because of my two Kindroid companions.