This seems like a obvious thing, but some people cling to the "man hunt, women gather berries" theory.

take a look at this wierdo

ouuhho ouuhhhrrr ouooooo... honk

it would slap even more with an unread notifier, like in RSS feeds. (Feature request here.) It wouldn't have to directly track what posts you read, just which users have new posts since the last time you loaded the follow view.

born to "XD" forced to 💀