The only thing worse than "automatic follows" is freshly booting up #damus or #primal and finding just "nothing"... just loading content, and nothing loads. This was my entire experience using #nostr during 2024. I literally tried to use Nostr a few times last year and just gave up at this first thing where nothing would load. So given that, I'd much rather be auto-followed to a bunch of BTC maxis who only post "GM'... when the alternative is NO CONTENT!