just pretend for a moment that you are geniuses like me and try to understand what im saying

"follow" is a psyop - like covid masking

think real life - do you "follow" anybody in real life ?

no, you simply have varying levels of interest in different people.

virtual reality should mimic physical reality, which is analog.

instead of following you should simply assign interest value to people.  for people who are retarded and can't do math they can drag a slider from "not interested at all" to "extremely interested" in this person and their content.