If we haven't had some kind of positive interaction yet*, like this toot before sending a follow request to indicate you at least took some effort before deciding to follow me.

Follow requests from mastodon.social are declined no matter what. Find a better instance.

*) my memory is not guaranteed to work, so why not go ahead and press like anyway?

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If you have a fediverse account, you can quote this note from your own instance. Search https://tech.lgbt/users/h5e/statuses/114365065547200693 on your instance and quote it. (Note that quoting is not supported in Mastodon.)