tiny PSA: cohost intentionally does not make it obvious when someone is following you. So the concept of "mutuals" is a bit more "person I actually know outside of The Cohost" and less "oh this person is following me already".
This is by design and I'd argue ultimately a good thing, but it's important to keep in mind if you're making posts mentioning "if we're mutuals", which I've seen a few times now.
i was just thinking about this, and the stark contrast with twitter where people have a little "i'm listening to you" badge which at least gives me something to go on
here i'm not really sure who i'm talking to, except for a small number of people who leave comments sometimes
it's weird. i dunno. i glanced at tumblr earlier and now i'm feeling Pensive
anyway there is sort of an opt-in hack around this: you can add "links" to your profile that are only visible to follows or only visible to followers, and they don't actually have to be links.
so you can deliberately broadcast to your follows that you do follow them, if you like, and everyone else won't even know you're doing it
hmm i'm tagging this but i don't think replies show up in bookmarked tag feeds
It's interesting cause when I think of the word "mutuals" as applied to Cohost I think of it as more of an ongoing dynamic process (we're mutuals because we share and comment on each other's posts) rather than a piece of information stored on a server somewhere
