I get and appreciate that.

It's the focus on publicly connecting **individual** people (Follows typically) that tends to force the influencer behavior on profiles.

You seem to be trying to get profiles out of the box of "the one influencer thing they're known for" with topical tagging. That's a great step forward from the Twitter (and Primal) UX. I'm also going that route.

I think interop Communities are more promising tho. "Follow" isn't a thing in the apps we're building.