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When generating a list of accounts, the "follow" buttons don't just follow an account ,but open up a new browser tab with a hyperlink back to that Mastodon user's profile page.... or it should, but the structure is broken.

Example of what should happen:
https://mastodon.social/@aiefel
Example of what does happen:
https://mastodon.social/@[email protected]

Please add a license — and thanks for a great tool 🙂

Entering a Mastodon handle with a trailing space yields the "No results found" error message. This may easily occur when the handle was copied.

Examples: (_ for space)

• "@user@instance": works
• "_@user@instance": defaults to "@user@instance" and works
• "@user@instance_": error

While the error messages clearly states, that this might be related to a typo, it still is somewhat unexpected behavior from an UX point of view.

Currently the system sorts by "common followers".

However this mostly shows the "big" accounts everyone is following, more interesting would be accounts were your overlap with their followers would be big relative to their following.
This would enable finding smaller niche accounts, fitting to your interests.

Can you tell me who made this picture you're using on the site and which license it is under? Thanks!

Please add the option to use the list of who follows me instead of the list of whom I am following as the starting point for generating the social graph. This may help to discover relevant users that may otherwise remain hidden.

Not everyone on Fedi uses Mastodon :)

I'm on mastodon.nz, but I mostly follow people on other instances. When i try to follow one of the "followers of my follows", it looks like followgraph bungs mastodon.nz after their handle instead of using their handle server name? i.e. I can't follow them

Mastodon allows following multiple accounts by uploading a .csv file.

Having a “download all as csv” would be nice for this, and maybe even having checkboxes to select accounts that will be included in the CSV file.

Not 100% sure it's the cause, and I know Pleroma ≠ Mastodon, but FYI I get:

ℹ️ No results found. Please double check for typos in the handle, and ensure that you follow at least a few people to seed the search. Otherwise, try again later as Mastodon may throttle requests.

Searching [email protected], which is a Pleroma instance: https://nado.social/

Inputing my handle [email protected], returns the following message:

No results found. Please double check for typos in the handle, and ensure that you follow at least a few people to seed the search. Otherwise, try again later as Mastodon may throttle requests.

additionally, one 1 warning:

Found 1 warnings:
Error while retrieving followers for [email protected].

Not sure why this would be happening as my social graph is available unauthenticated.

Thanks for this app!

One issue I found is that many of the accounts I see have not posted for months, sometimes years.

Potential solution: Per result, show the date of the most recent post.

I keep getting error messages for people on ecoevo.social

I get people from that instance as my suggestions, but about 150 of the handles from there are causing an error.

I already tried contacting the admin of the instance, but they couldn't see an error on their end (https://fediscience.org/@volephd/109800244549789565)

I think it might be neat to have an option to sort by – if I'm understanding this right –

      return (b.followed_by.size / b.followers_count) - (a.followed_by.size/ a.followers_count)

or, for the lazy smoothing method recommended me by a college prof years ago for ratios like these,

    return ((b.followed_by.size + 1) / (b.followers_count + 1)) - ((a.followed_by.size + 1) / (a.followers_count + 1))

The current sort is good for people who are looking for new content to fill their feeds – but I'm also interested in increasing the connectedness of my little neighborhood within the network. So knowing that 80% of someone's followers are people I follow makes me much more interested in that person than in, say, Pixelfed being very widely followed by all people who have been around for a long time on Fedi.

anyway I know this is not a very helpful feature request because I'm not touching any of the actual UI work that'd be necessary to make it real, so definitely feel free to ignore. Cheers on the tool in general, it's very neat!

Thanks for making this useful tool!

A suggestion: "Find awesome people on Mastodon" coupled with a photo showing only young white blond people is not a great juxtaposition.

(Also I personally find AI-generated images with all the extra fingers kinda creepy, but maybe that's just my problem 😁)

My handle is like [email protected] but the instance is running at mastodon.example.com. This is a config that is standard per Mastodon software.

See web domain setting here:
https://docs.joinmastodon.org/admin/config/#web_domain.

I seem to have to provide [email protected] for this tool to work.

Is this software under a license? If so, what is the license?

Thank you for a great tool!

I don’t know if it’s just me, but my results include people I already follow. If this is by design, would you please consider adding an option to exclude accounts that I already follow?

Hello, 👋
followgraph is very useful, thanks! 😎

I suggest a new feature: showing posts (at least, recent posts, but it could also include popular posts) from suggested people to follow.
It would prevent from doing this:
https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/3862051/210041321-2dd21da9-8b2b-4478-86bc-b1ac65ae03f6.mov
What do you think?

It would be nice if already blocked accounts would not be listed

Happy to contribute if I find time, but I'll write here anyway. I think that when it comes to finding people to follow (especially given the mass migrations) people might want to avoid users who just created an account (every migration wave) but never participated in the platform.

I think in general it would be nice to display

• Total amount of toots
• Last tooted (x time ago)

Thanks for the project, it's really helpful

This is an excellent idea. Unfortunately, there are many suggestions among the results for users that I already follow. [email protected]

Best wishes
H

Love this tool!

I think it'd be really cool to be able to csv export the top 50/100/200 suggestions so I can bulk import them easily into mastodon.

Happy to PR this after Christmas!

Please consider adding support for accounts with hidden followings. There are people including me who are okay to share my followings with this projects but are not okay to share them with the whole world.

I used a workaround and temporarily made my followings public and then closed them. But it's a hacky solution. If I want to use your app next time I will have to do this things once again which is tedious.

Thank you for your project.

Hello, I'm not a coder/techie or anything like that.
I used your excellent tool to find other ppl in my wee corner of the world (mastodon.nz) - thank you for coding this!
Just wondered if the results could be ordered by number of toots? In checking out some accounts, the last toot was last month. I'm interested in people who actively toot.
I don't know if this is possible.
Thanks again for your work, appreciated!

i don't know if this is already known, but the tool has problems with friendica accounts.
it doesn't recognise them.

I thought you should know